[Plugin: Easy Table Creator By PolyVision] Cannot put Greek Letters in fields

Hi there,

Unfortunately, we’re not able to reproduce this problem. Can you tell me what font and character coding are you using? We recommend using UTF-8 encoding.

Thanks!

I am using Arial font and UTF-8 encoding. I am using WordPress 3.1 and Plugin version 0.1.1

Could you send a link to the page where you are having this problem so we can troubleshoot further? Thanks!

The link is: https://www.glymphconsulting.com

Us this link instead. Disregard the previous link:

https://www.glymphconsulting.com/?page_id=21

Hi dub2dub,

My suspicious is that it’s not a problem with this plug-in exactly. To test that suspicion, could you test adding a special character into a page or post other special characters by clicking the “Insert Special Character” button on the Editor toolbar (i.e. not using the plug-in)?

The question mark is a character that is in the HTML source code itself, so either it came from the database (which is incorrectly setup) or WordPress isn’t handling special characters correctly.

The link below shows another WordPress support discussion that recommends that your config.php file contain:

define(‘DB_CHARSET’, ‘utf8’);
define(‘DB_COLLATE’, ”);

And, your database tables should be “utf8_general_ci” for Collation.

https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/special-characters-converted-to-question-marks-on-save

Give that discussion link a look and let us know if any of those recommendations help!

I used greek characters in a regular page and post I did receive the “?” in the place of the characters.

I checked everything out and my config.php file does have the code
define(‘DB_CHARSET’, ‘utf8’);
define(‘DB_COLLATE’, ”);

What I think it is, is the Collation. When I looked into phpMyAdmin in my cPanel and looked at my table, I noticed that in the Collation column the value says latin1_swedish_ci

After reading some of the forums it seems like that is the problem I would guess. What’s the easiest way to fix this if there is one?

Thanks for all of your help.