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Asked: 2026-05-22T12:52:17+00:00

I’m running Umbraco on a windows 2003 server with IIS 6 and MySQL. In

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I’m running Umbraco on a windows 2003 server with IIS 6 and MySQL.

In the staging server we have Windows 2008 R2 and IIS 7.5 and everything works great.

On the production server instead of the unicode chars I see ? characters. I looked inside the MySQL db and I can see the old values (moved from the staging server) in unicode, but all values updated on the production server are saved as ?.

I’m guessing I’m missing a setting in IIS/Win2k3/Umbraco, but I can’t find it.

Anyone have experience with this type of setup?

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  1. Editorial Team

    If your production MySQL server is a different server, did you check that MySQL was installed with UTF-8 support?

    This link may be of use (ignore the Apache bits):

    Enable UTF-8 on PHP, MySQL and Apache

    This query (as root) should tell you what you need to know:

    show variables like 'c%'
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