Japanese fonts displaying as ?????

  • Resolved ShigueS

    (@shigues)


    13 years, 12 months ago

    Hello,

    I’m using the latest version of WP and a pluggin called qtranslate, which I use to translate pages from english to japanese and vice-versa.

    In my localhost everything works like a charm, but when I upload it to the server, the japanese characters turns to ?????. English works fine.

    I’ve tried a lot of things, but must of the solutions I found were dated. I wonder if I’m doing something wrong. My version of WP was installed via Fantastico.

    I would appreciate if someone could help me on this.

    Thank you.

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  • Thread Starter ShigueS

    (@shigues)

    Someone, please answer me.

    I found the solution here:
    https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/japanese-posts-to-display-proper-characters

    Remove or comment out this statement in the wp-config.php file:
    define(‘DB_CHARSET’, ‘utf8’);

    I commented out mine so it now reads:
    /** define(‘DB_CHARSET’, ‘utf8’); */

    This fixed the issue for me!

    Thread Starter ShigueS

    (@shigues)

    Thank you!

    I’ve tried that, but it changes my content somehow. Also, the japanese font wont display.

    In fact, I realized that may be a problem of how the plugin stores the text, because I can write japanese in the blog section, but not in the pages.

    If I come up with a solution I will let you know!

    Thread Starter ShigueS

    (@shigues)

    Ok, I got it!

    The problem is with the php database. Using PHPMyadmin I chanced the enconding from “latin1_swedish_ci” to “utf8_unicode_ci” on wp_post database.

    There is a very handful plugin called WP-phpmyadmin that allows you to edit your database from within WordPress.

    Thank you!

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