Chinese characters turn into question marks

Do you have these

define('DB_CHARSET', 'utf8');
define('DB_COLLATE', '');

in your wp-config.php file?

Resource:
https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Editing_wp-config.php

I took a look at that and this as well: https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/120135?replies=12

Unfortunately when I added the “//”, the entire website goes south with this error:

Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by (output started at /home/globalma/public_html/beipod.cn/wp-config.php:47) in /home/globalma/public_html/beipod.cn/wp-includes/pluggable.php on line 331

Regrettably, not the very best start with WordPress on HostICan…

You have an empty/blank line or a space after the closing ?> in the wp-config file.

I’m afraid that this… worked! ?? You guys are great, thank you so much. ??

I’m afraid to say, but You are Welcome! ??

I also solved the Chinese character problem by following your suggestion. THANKS!!! This is my wp-config file for others to see where I edited the lines:

<?php
// ** MySQL settings ** //
define(‘DB_NAME’, ‘xxx’); // The name of the database
define(‘DB_USER’, ‘xxxxx’); // Your MySQL username
define(‘DB_PASSWORD’, ‘xxxx’); // …and password
define(‘DB_HOST’, ‘localhost’); // 99% chance you won’t need to change this value
// define(‘DB_CHARSET’, ‘utf8’);
// define(‘DB_COLLATE’, ”);

Just don’t post ever your password publicly… [edited]

Thanks ?? In all my excitement, I did a stupid one!

I’m having a similar problem. I’ve done this for a few WordPress upgrades now, upgrading via Fantastico and deleting the two lines in wpconfig to get the Chinese characters.

It worked fine until today when I did the Fantastico upgrade to 2.3.3. Now even after deleting the two lines, the Chinese characters still fail to display correctly. I’m at my wit’s end here. Any help will be appreciated.

Here’s a copy of the wpconfig, but the Chinese characters still won’t show up. The site is at passionforarts.com

<?php
// ** MySQL settings ** //
define(‘DB_NAME’, ‘xxx’); // The name of the database
define(‘DB_USER’, ‘xxx’); // Your MySQL username
define(‘DB_PASSWORD’, ‘xxx’); // …and password
define(‘DB_HOST’, ‘localhost’); // 99% chance you won’t need to change this value
// define(‘DB_CHARSET’, ‘utf8’);
// define(‘DB_COLLATE’, ”);

// You can have multiple installations in one database if you give each a unique prefix
$table_prefix = ‘wp_’; // Only numbers, letters, and underscores please!

// Change this to localize WordPress. A corresponding MO file for the
// chosen language must be installed to wp-content/languages.
// For example, install de.mo to wp-content/languages and set WPLANG to ‘de’
// to enable German language support.
define (‘WPLANG’, ”);

/* That’s all, stop editing! Happy blogging. */

define(‘ABSPATH’, dirname(__FILE__).’/’);
require_once(ABSPATH.’wp-settings.php’);
?>

Please ignore me. I was being stupid. I have mistakenly been trying to edit the wpconfig file of a different blog. Works fine now.