Unicode Font Problem in Wordpress? A simple solution

From: http://wordpress.org/support/topic/163109

There is a serious issue with WP 2.5 RC1 as far as I can tell. My update went perfectly well but all accentuated characters are showing scrambled. Check it here (written in French, hence the high frequency of such chars).

My first reflex was to blame MySQL, so I went to phpmyadmin and checked my encoding settings:

- MySQL charset: UTF-8 Unicode (utf8)
- MySQL connection collation: utf8_unicode_ci

I then blamed my personal template, but the problem subsists with the Default WP template. Argh!

What should I change to get my proper character display?

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Solution: comment the DB_CHARSET line in the wp-config.php file. Found in this comment:

I had a similar problem on my blog and all I had to do was to add // to one line in wp-config.php

I changed

define(’DB_CHARSET’, ‘utf8′);

to

// define(’DB_CHARSET’, ‘utf8′);

And everything was fine.