Thread:Project:Support desk/Corrupted database - where to from here?/reply

Things would be far easier for you, if you had a backup - even if it was a few days or weeks old. Do you have one?

Another idea I have right now would be to fix the "mangled characters". Maybe your host copied the database and "only" changed the charset of the DB? So that basically your content is fine, but MySQL displays it incorrectly?