I’d been running an ancient 2.1.something version of WP, too lazy to upgrade, but since P got re-infected with that stupid script (I hadn’t…yet), I thought upgrading to the latest version would at least be harmless, and might help keep me from getting infected again. I don’t remember the last time I’d upgraded because it was so long ago, but I did remember that I had to pay attention to do it lest I overwrite customised files with the default versions, and that was one reason I hadn’t bothered in so long. Went fine, though. Okay, so I named the temporary folder into which I d/l’d copies before overwriting the ones on the server “jesus-christ”, but that’s pretty normal for me when I’m even mildly annoyed. Anyway, all done, all shiny new now and I didn’t even fuck up one single thing. Yay, me! 🙂

Hang on…Ã¥ ä ö é ø ? ç è ?. I didn’t mess up my multi-language support, did I? Hmmm…where the hell are the rest of them?

Oh, I keep forgetting to put my little friend here. The lunatics at PETA are trying to get people to love fish by changing their name to “sea kittens” (since everyone loves kittens…I shit you not), and although I already like fish more than anyone with any common sense likes PETA and don’t much give a shit what they’re called, they have a little Flash app that allows you to “design your own sea kitten”. I named mine Princess, and I think her little yellow floaties are absolutely adorable!

Okay, edited wp-config.php to remove the utf-8 charset specification that wasn’t in the old one….how about now? Ã¥ ä ö ü é è ø ß Å¡ č ç þ Å“ æ ñ ă ý. Okay, they’re all here…now publish.

Works. How the hell did Swedish end up as my default DB character set? I never told it to do that. Those Swedes are everywhere, infiltrating my DB! :þ Ooooh, now can I make hearts? ♥ ♥ ♥ Yey!