Strange text in my local copy UTF-8 mismatch?

[aakraak]

When I move my website to local, it gives me strange text, such as é instead of é. I read online it is a UTF-8 mismatch. What to do? Because I have a lot of websites with the same problem.

Commenting out in wp-config is not really a sustainable option. I am looking for a way so the local development site is the same as my production site.

Why is this happening? Can it be I have a different type of MySQL on my hosting server (the one where the websites have their production website?)

[sambrockway]

Hi there @aakraak - thank you for your question!

I have a quick follow-up before we dive in more.

How are you importing your sites into Local? Are you using a specific plugin to generate a backup that you are them importing?

Thank you!

Sam

[aakraak]

I am using duplicator. Drag and drop, love that

[Nick-B]

Hi @aakraak

This other thread should help provide some insight and potential help moving forward with this:

Problem Migrating website from Duplicator

This probably has less to do with Duplicator and Local and more to do with some differences in the configuration of the database between these two environments. Specifically, when I see that kind of mangling of characters, I usually think of issues with character sets between the two DBs. This blog post will give you a better backstory of the issue, as well as a general idea for how to fix it: But basically, you’ll probably want to export the DB, make some changes to the sql dump to update …

[aakraak]

Thank you, going to look into it!