After exporting/importing my WordPress tables today I found that many of my posts contained a weird character strewn about. That character was the character ‘Â’.
A number of ideas how to remove this came to mind…I could try to find the problem in the original SQL, but I have had additional comments since the import so that option was effectively off the table.
A quick Google search led me to this helpful page. In short, I had to run the following:
UPDATE wp_posts
SET post_content = REPLACE(post_content, 'Â', '');
And that’s it. Be very careful as MySQL doesn’t give you good ways to rollback mistakes.