Chinese characters displaying as question marks with utf-8 enabled

  • Resolved garbunk

    (@garbunk)


    11 years, 4 months ago

    I have a completely stock installation of the latest version of WordPress. I wrote my first post in simplified Chinese and as soon as it was saved, it turned into question marks. The usual solution found on Google is to change your wp_config.php file to contain

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

    However, this is 3.5.2 and utf8 is the default. Indeed, my config file already looks exactly like this. Yet I still get question marks. What could be the problem?

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  • Moderator Jan Dembowski

    (@jdembowski)

    Forum Moderator and Brute Squad

    Link please? Also review this link.

    https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Installing_WordPress_in_Your_Language

    You may need to experiment with the WPLANG setting.

    Thread Starter garbunk

    (@garbunk)

    Oh, the installation is in English. I’ll be building and maintaining the site. But pretty much all the content will be numeric or in Chinese.

    You want a link to the problem page? here. Curiously, the page name is in characters when I specifically configured WP permalink settings to use a custom structure of /%post_id%/.

    Thread Starter garbunk

    (@garbunk)

    Is there any information about this issue? This is the official support forum, right? Where else is appropriate?

    Thread Starter garbunk

    (@garbunk)

    No thanks to anyone on this forum, but I figured it out. Change utf8 to iso2022cn and it started working. Also upload all language files from WP Chinese edition into wp-content.

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