Thai URL/Permalink

Hi

I believe it is dependent on your browser / system. My own browser displays correct thai characters.

No, it’s not simply that, we use Thai language all the time on our systems and it displays correctly in all interfaces.

It’s the actual url created/stored within WordPress that is the problem, it’s being converted into UTF-8 characters (I think) and we want it to appear using the Thai characters with no conversion/encoding . . .

Could you provide a link?

Sorry, the Thai side of things is under development and not “live” as such so no url to give you.

When I create new posts, the permalink created is as shown in the 1st post here, i.e., no Thai characters in url, just converted to utf.

Maybe you should check your database encoding.

The problem should not come from Polylang because character encoding is managed by WordPress (you should have the same problem if you de-activate Polylang and choose the Thai language in WP options).

If the database encoding was incorrect, all Thai characters in posts, urls, everywhere would display incorrectly, yes? As is stands, it displays everywhere fine EXCEPT in urls . . .

Yes you are probably right. But since you didn’t want to believe me that’s a problem with your OS or browser, I suggested this other possibility. I tested your site mentionned in another topic and your thai characters in urls are correctly displayed in my own browser.

Hi Chouby,

We have rewrite problems with the new version of Polylang.
I believe that it was caused by this fix:
* Fix rewrite rules with front

It worked until few days ago. Our URLs are Latin. The website showed me 404 for custom post type categories. Example:
https://ivn.org.il/he/portfolio/education-he/
Now it works, because I rolled back to version 1.5.5

Thanks,
Ronny

Hi Chouby,

We live and work in Thailand and use the Thai language and fonts daily in every interface and every browser which is why I questioned your suggestion of database encoding.

The very fact that post content displays correctly in all browsers lead us to believe there was some other issue, not a database encoding issue.

Thanks for the help.

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@cmykreative
As written above: I agree that’s not a problem of database encoding. As written in my first answer, that’s a problem with your brower as it works perfect with my own browser:

I tested your site mentionned in another topic and your thai characters in urls are correctly displayed in my own browser.

Apparently @chouby, you did not read my comment all the way.
My last line was: “Now it works, because I rolled back to version 1.5.5”.
It did not work with Polylang 1.6 on any browser or computer.

@chouby – it’s not a browser problem, Thai characters appear fine in all browsers we use.

We have installed Full UTF-8 plugin and that solved part of the problem with url’s, they appear to be showing correctly in the front end now, but in Admin the “category” is not showing correctly and the final page title part of the url is incorrect also.

So, basically problem is still there.

Do we need to go to 1.5.5 also?