Google search description shows wrong characters

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GK User
Sat Jul 28, 2012 5:01 am
Hi everyone.

When I make a google search of my own site www.fotograflagerlof.se the search google descriptions looks like this:

Blå moskén i Istanbul - Fotograf David Lagerlöf
Blå moskén tillhör ett av de där obligatoriska besö ksmålen i Istanbul. Att inte besöka moskén är d...
www.fotograflagerlof.se/item/72-bla-mosken-istanbul - Cachad

Google shows my swedish characters åäö in the wrong way. I am using utf-8. I have been googling the problem for two days now and no answer. Anyone who knows what to do?

It seems not to be browser related as I have checked on diffent browsers.
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GK User
Sun Jul 29, 2012 11:00 pm
Hi,

Somehow I don't see the problem when searching your site with Google, below is what I get:
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Fotoblogg - Fotograf David Lagerlöf
www.fotograflagerlof.se/ - Translate this page
Fotohemsida för fotograf David Lagerlöf. Porträtt, fotoreportage, actionbilder och produktfoto.
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GK User
Mon Jul 30, 2012 6:29 am
Hi,

If you look again further down the list you will se that the posts have strange characters. The strange thing is that all of them dont have wrong characters. It seems specifically to be the k2 items.

One example:

Blå moskén i Istanbul - Fotograf David Lagerlöf
Blå moskén tillhör ett av de där obligatoriska besö ksmålen i Istanbul. Att inte besöka moskén är d...
www.fotograflagerlof.se/item/72-bla-mosken-istanbul - Cachad


David


Don Lee wrote:Hi,

Somehow I don't see the problem when searching your site with Google, below is what I get:
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Fotoblogg - Fotograf David Lagerlöf
www.fotograflagerlof.se/ - Translate this page
Fotohemsida för fotograf David Lagerlöf. Porträtt, fotoreportage, actionbilder och produktfoto.
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GK User
Mon Jul 30, 2012 11:54 am
So please access your database and check if K2 tables are encoded to UTF-8. If it comes only from K2 items as you said, I think it's a problem from K2 rather than the template, you can change default template to another one to test or check with K2 forum/support to see if it's a known problem from K2.

Cheers,
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GK User
Mon Jul 30, 2012 8:06 pm
I will do that. Thanks!

Don Lee wrote:So please access your database and check if K2 tables are encoded to UTF-8. If it comes only from K2 items as you said, I think it's a problem from K2 rather than the template, you can change default template to another one to test or check with K2 forum/support to see if it's a known problem from K2.

Cheers,
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GK User
Fri Aug 03, 2012 11:55 am
Hi,

Have you tried and did that help?

Regards,
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