I'm still not entirely sure if this is Backup and Migrate related, but so far it seems to be. The thing is - I publish an article in Romanian using specific diacritics - ăîșțâ - which appear fine initially, but after restoring the database from a backup made by Backup and Migrate the special characters are rendered as ?????, like this:

Asigurarea tuturor demersurilor juridice necesare înregistrării Asociațiilor de Dezvoltare Intercomunitară (original text)
Asigurarea tuturor demersurilor juridice necesare ?nregistr?rii Asocia?iilor de Dezvoltare Intercomunitar? (after database restore)

Restoring a database exported by other tools, like phpMyAdmin or Sequel Pro, preserves the diacritics.

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Cosmin Hodis-Mindras created an issue. See original summary.

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esolitos
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Primary language Italian
Location Trondheim
CreditAttribution: esolitos at Ramsalt Lab commented
Status: Active » Closed (duplicate)
Related issues: +#2749885: Database irreversibly corrupted after export and restore - Encoding issues with non ASCIII texts

I believe this is the same issue presented here #2749885: Database irreversibly corrupted after export and restore - Encoding issues with non ASCIII texts, we also experienced the same issues with iso-latin1 strings.

I believe the issue is basically with anything non ASCII