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My website is showing the wrong characters as you can see in the attached image, taken from google analytics:

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Now, the problem is that these characters only show SOMETIMES, which I find very strange.

I've tried changing the database collation to utf-8 as per this post.

And I've also tried using Admin tools "Change database collation" several times, and "Repair & Otimise tables" but nothing works.

Have also cleared cache and temp directory.

Can anyone please help?

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    Frustratingly, there are lots of places the encoding can be wrong. Here is a [long discussion](https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.7/en/charset-connection.html). Chances are the solution is the terribly-named `SET NAMES` directive. – Jerry Nov 30 '17 at 18:44
  • this sucks..... –  Nov 30 '17 at 18:59

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