Strange characters ’ and  in Wordpress posts
After a wordpress upgrade we started to get all kinds of weird symbols in our posts, including  and ’.
I figured it was a character encoding mismatch problem and a quick search on the Wordpress forums confirmed it.
You have to comment out two lines in your wp-config.php file (found in your main blog directory).
These are the two lines:
define('DB_CHARSET', 'utf8');
define('DB_COLLATE', '');
Comment them out like this:
//define('DB_CHARSET', 'utf8');//define('DB_COLLATE', '');
Fixed our problem.
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