so just to get this straight, I'd just need to download my whole database as a .sql file
then make a new database (I guess through the mysql panel)
Open up the .sql file I downloaded, then copy it into the new database?
I didn't understand clearly (I'm not that well versed), and I didn't understand what I needed to replace.
Did you mean I had to fix every single issue on the blog?
My Japanese users post tons of those faces, so... does it mean I have to actually replace the 'faces' with what they're supposed to look like?
If it was easy to change the utf-8 encoding to something else, isn't there a process to revert it?