I’ve worked my way through all the fixes posted above with no success (I think I’m ok with the under-the-hood stuff but by choice would rather be driving ….).
The situation is that in two separate new installs on two unrelated servers via Fantastico latest and cpanel latest displays only ????? when I post anything that my browser normally accepts as Hebrew utf-8. The situation is different on my wordpress.com blog: it works perfectly.
Among the MySQL tweaks that I tried were:
– changing the schema structure so that collation showed utf8_general_ci but the individual tables still showed latin1-swedish-ci
– laboriously changing every char field (column) in every table to utf but the schema didn’t show any difference afterwards
-making sure that all my default encodings in phpSQLAdmin were utf8 I created a duplicate database and imported all the tables and data from the orginal, only to find that char fields had determinedly stuck to latin1-swedish-c1
– having tried the edits to config.php, in exasperation I’ve returned here to keep the topic open.
My best guess at this stage is that server caching got in the way of all these changes. I cleared my browser cache several times to make sure.
Any advice? besides sticking only to the wordpress.com subdomain, which is not the most efficient solution at this end.
Thanks
