Question

While porting data from one mysql database to another there have come some issues like appostrophes have been converted into †in a field called story. Why did this happen and what should I do now to correct the new database?

I have only the phpmyadmin access of the two databases.

Answer 1

Take a look at the charatersets used by your database. You can do this by entering \s in the MySQL client. Example output is:

Server characterset:    latin1
Db     characterset:    latin1
Client characterset:    latin1
Conn.  characterset:    latin1

What charactersets do you get and what do you expect?