[GTALUG] a solved problem unsolved itself: WordPress, MySQL, UTF-8

[Stewart C. Russell]

On 2021-11-27 18:04, D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote:
> 
> Do you have shell access?  I think you imply "yes".

Yes, I do, but not to the database server. All I have for that is socket 
access and PHPMyAdmin (blecch).

> Does "fix it" mean "changed the raw data" or mangle the data somewhere
> downstream of the disk files?

"fix it" meant "broke it". The MySQL DB tables seem to have been quietly 
reprocessed from one encoding to another.

> Back-ups?

Would have been an excellent idea, yes.

  Stewart