Strange text in my local copy UTF-8 mismatch?

[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 …