I have a weird issue with the diamond question marks for strange symbols in Wordpress. I just migrated my website and content to a new redesigned template. You can see at the bottom of this url what my issue is.

It looks like the diamond is only appearing instead of a space before a html tag. So in the bottom of the page you see the issue with an <a> tag, but it also happens with for example <strong> tags through the website.

• My database is InnoDB with utf8_general_ci
• Meta tag: <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html" charset="UTF-8"/>
• Custom template
• Advanced Custom Fields

Anyone who can help out?

I have a weird issue with the diamond question marks for strange symbols in Wordpress. I just migrated my website and content to a new redesigned template. You can see at the bottom of this url what my issue is.

It looks like the diamond is only appearing instead of a space before a html tag. So in the bottom of the page you see the issue with an <a> tag, but it also happens with for example <strong> tags through the website.

• My database is InnoDB with utf8_general_ci
• Meta tag: <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html" charset="UTF-8"/>
• Custom template
• Advanced Custom Fields

Anyone who can help out?

• custom-field
• database
• meta-query

• this sign replace something that is missing or it is just add to the initial content ? if it's just add, you can try to clean the database with a tool like this : github/interconnectit/Search-Replace-DB – mmm Commented Oct 8, 2017 at 20:00
• I searched for the text in the database. But there I just see the space, no weird characters or something. So I don't know where to look for with the replace library. Any suggestions? – ronnyrr Commented Oct 8, 2017 at 20:32

1 Answer 1

A diamond question mark is browser for "I can't decode that."

I would assume what is happening is when you migrated the HTML entity for space was encoded in your database wrong or WordPress is reading it with the wrong encoding assumed.