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1. ParaFish
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   I am currently living in Japan and wanted to blog about my stay here for friends and family to see. I want to be able to type in Japanese as well in case the few Japanese friends I have care to check my blog. I tried writing a blog last night and everything I typed in Japanese came out normally. But, when I hit published and checked the blog it just displayed a bunch of ?????????????????. How can I publish Japanese on my blog? My computer is fully capable of reading/tying Japanese on the web. It just changes it to ??? when I trying and publish the material. Someone please help me!

   Thanks in advance!

2. moshu
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   An example link would be beneficial...
   Are you typing or copy/pasting? - it's not the same!
   Is this a new WP install or upgrade? What is your setting for encoding?

3. ParaFish
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   I've tried to both copy and type Japanese. Both of them look normal in the editor but when published it comes up as a bunch of ???. This is a fresh WP install. I installed it via cPanel and it should be the latest version. As far as encoding, I'm not sure. I never touched any kind of encoding options so I guess its default. Maybe I need to play around with encoding tonight but I don't even know where to find that option.

4. moshu
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Don't play with encoding if you don't know what it is. You may make it worse...

   The default encoding of WordPress (utf-8) should be working for any language - unless you copy from a source that has different encoding.

   In the meantime try this:
   - download the wp-config.php file from the server (via FTP)
   - find these two lines in it (lines # 7 and 8):
   

   define('DB_CHARSET', 'utf8');
   define('DB_COLLATE', '');

   - delete them
   - upload the config file where it was (yes, overwrite the old one)
   - try to post in Japanese or any non-English characters

5. ParaFish
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Okay I went and deleted those 2 lines like you said. It works and I am allowed to type in Japanese. Appreciate the help. I don't know why it worked but it did the trick. I don't guess I'll have to be doing that often, will I?

6. spurry
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   I had those 2 lines deleted, and 'adding' them just fixed it for me.
   define('DB_CHARSET', 'utf8');
   define('DB_COLLATE', 'ujis_japanese_ci');

   I'm not sure whether to thank you for giving me the exact opposite answer to what I needed or what?;-)

7. spurry
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   However my categories have changed to '????' so not quite everything was fixed.

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