Double Byte Posting Problems

  • Hi, I have the most recent version of WordPress, and I’m having a problem with posting japanese characters.
    Apparently whenever i make a “double-byte” post, the characters always end up turning into ???????????
    I’ve already have HTML TRANS on off and i have the character settings of my page on default wordpress setting.
    please help.
    thanks,
    frank.

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  • I think there needs to be a multi-byte conversion before the data is store in the database and after it is retrieved. PHP has built in functions for this but it isn’t in place in WordPress yet.

    “Default WordPress setting” is ISO-8859-1, which would never work with double bytes encoding.
    Add $admin_charset=’UTF-8′; in wp-config.php, change your template’s charset to UTF-8, and it should be fine.
    (Next release has a charset option, so it will be easier.)

    Thread Starter SpOiLeR

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    michel: I tried your method but it still doesn’t work. I tried changing the post in PHPMYADMIN but apparently it also gives the same results (the text becomes question marks). I guess there has to be a conversion to be stored in the database.
    I’ll wait for the next release. hopefully this feature will be added.
    thanks for the replies!

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