Accented Characters getting garbled

[henris17]

Hello,
After doing a restore from a backup my accented characters are getting garbled. Is there somewhere a routine or a way to restore it in its original situation.

f.i. : België => België
on other occasions I get the html code for the characters.
f.i.: Albanië => Albanië

[in case the accented characters would not pass on this forum both last characters are "e umlaut"}

I hope you can help me as I am rather desperate.

Henri

[replytomk3]

When you restored from database dump, the character encoding setting was not transferred, or encoding was lost.

Firstly, inspect encoding set in your database tables from the dump file or PHPMyAdmin. Then change the config.php setting to correct encoding.

[henris17]

Yes but now the accented characters are "garbled" (badly coded) , is there a way to restore them correctly ? Something like a search and replace over the whole database or something else.