I was thinking that it may be the collation, but I have no way of know what the production db collation is. The local one has been changed between UTF8_bin and UTF8_general_ci, to no avail. I'm seeing characters like á and what looks like a capital T, but maybe in subscript form.
I've also checked the data that's imported and saw that the original data contains things like a space before a </strong>, at least I think it's a space.
Any thoughts? Thanks!
Can you try setting the DB Charset within wp-config.php?
define('DB_CHARSET', 'utf8_general_ci');
define('DB_COLLATE', 'utf8_general_ci');
Have a read of this first though: https://codex.wordpress.org/Editing_wp-config.php
It can cause problems to an already existing blog to add those lines into wp-config.php, so use with caution.
Are you importing this through WordPress or manually through something like PhpMyAdmin?
Also, are all the tables are collated correctly?
