Fix Wrong Encoding After Upgrade WordPress 2.2

Filed in: WordPress — May 31st, 2007

WordPressIf your non-English WordPress blog has wrong characters encoding after upgrade to WordPress 2.2. Don’t worry. It can be solved easily by editing WordPress configuration file.

  1. Open and edit “wp-config.php”
  2. Find: define('DB_CHARSET', 'utf8');
  3. Remove “utf8″, so it becomes: define('DB_CHARSET', '');
  4. Save and upload “wp-config.php”
  5. Done. Your WordPress blog should display characters correctly.

By default, if no character set is defined, WordPerss 2.2 will use utf8_general_ci

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    thanks for the tip!
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  • http://www.frostandchauhan.com Andrew Mycah

    thanks for the tip!
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    Will i do anything wrong if the visitor translates the page with say GOOGLE translate.

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    Will i do anything wrong if the visitor translates the page with say GOOGLE translate.

  • LcF

    @Pranjal: It should work because the page will use the default charset “utf8_general_ci” (unicode, Multilingual). The Google Translate *should* read the content.

  • LcF

    @Pranjal: It should work because the page will use the default charset “utf8_general_ci” (unicode, Multilingual). The Google Translate *should* read the content.

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    Thanks so much for discovering this solution and sharing it! I was staring down the barrel of manually correcting my posts, but thanks to you everything seems fine now.

    -Hrafn

  • http://www.thinkartificial.org hthth

    Thanks so much for discovering this solution and sharing it! I was staring down the barrel of manually correcting my posts, but thanks to you everything seems fine now.

    -Hrafn

  • LcF

    @Hrafn: glad that the simple solution helped you so much :)

  • LcF

    @Hrafn: glad that the simple solution helped you so much :)

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    That solved the problems. Thanks!

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    That solved the problems. Thanks!

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    Thanks for helping me out. I was worried I’d have to go through and manually edit all the f-d up articles!!!

  • http://www.driftreality.com Jiyan

    Thanks for helping me out. I was worried I’d have to go through and manually edit all the f-d up articles!!!

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