WordPress warning htmlspecialchars() [function.htmlspecialchars]: charset `UTF-7′ not supported after upgrading to WordPress 3.6.1

archiem Sep 27, 2013 in Blog, Snippets | 0 comments

Yesterday I encountered a warning message everytime I create a new post after upgrading wordpress to latest version 3.6.1. with the following error:

Warning: htmlspecialchars() [function.htmlspecialchars]: 
charset `UTF-7' not supported, assuming iso-8859-1 in 
/public_html/wordpress/wp-includes/formatting.php on line 2751

In order to resolve this just follow the following steps:

1. Login to your wordpress dashboard
2. Go to Settings -> Reading
3. Change the charset from `UTF-7` to `UTF-8`
4. Save the settings and you are good to go.

Hope it helps! ciao!