Ok here goes. I've seen many people experience this problem, so I want to know what to expect before the worse happens..
The plugin works fine. I save the file on my desktop and uncompress it to a directory.
When I open it in any text editor.. some characters get replaced..
Warning: "xyz_wp_blabla.sql" contains characters that do not exist in code page 1252 (ANSI - Latin I). They will be converted to the system default character if you click OK.
Kiltak, charset issues, contrary to the forum post linked to above, are problems with database backups not particular to this plugin or avoided by using mysqldump.
Just google "MySQL" and "charset" or something similar to see what I mean.
My guess about what happened is that your database was originally latin1 and you have tried to import it as utf-8, but without more information I can't know for sure, and without knowing 1) your original database's charset, 2) the encoding option in WP under Options » Reading, and 3) the new database's charset, I can't make any recommendations.
Ok, My database has been automatically created by my host. (Dreamhost)
The current charset for the database is latin1_swedish_ci (Uh? how come)
Encoding option in wordpress is UTF-8
Ok here goes. I've seen many people experience this problem, so I want to know what to expect before the worse happens..
The plugin works fine. I save the file on my desktop and uncompress it to a directory.
When I open it in any text editor.. some characters get replaced..
Warning: "xyz_wp_blabla.sql" contains characters that do not exist in code page 1252 (ANSI - Latin I). They will be converted to the system default character if you click OK.
Is this normal? Can it be ignored?
And is this: http://wordpress.org/support/topic/143856
related to this problem?
Anyone there?
This is a very serious problem.. and I'm not the only person experiencing it.
Anyone here to help?
Kiltak, charset issues, contrary to the forum post linked to above, are problems with database backups not particular to this plugin or avoided by using mysqldump.
Just google "MySQL" and "charset" or something similar to see what I mean.
My guess about what happened is that your database was originally latin1 and you have tried to import it as utf-8, but without more information I can't know for sure, and without knowing 1) your original database's charset, 2) the encoding option in WP under Options » Reading, and 3) the new database's charset, I can't make any recommendations.
Ok, My database has been automatically created by my host. (Dreamhost)
The current charset for the database is latin1_swedish_ci (Uh? how come)
Encoding option in wordpress is UTF-8
What should I do?
Thanks alot for your help!
K.
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