Posted 3 years ago #
I have a webserver home - Windows XP Pro SP2 + Apache 2.0.52 (default charset set to UTF-8) + MySQL 4.1 (defaults to multilanguage UTF-8). I put the new WP 1.5 on it and set that I'll use UTF-8 for it. The problem is that some latvian and russian characters show up as black boxes and question marks. What could be the trouble?
Some latvian and russian characters:
Ä“Å«Ä«Ä?šģķļžÄ?Ã…â€
Ñ?чÑ?�¼�¸Ñ‚ÑŒ�±ÑŽ.
Posted 3 years ago #
OK, on this page everything shows up as it should so the problem is somewhere on my server. Any advice?
website address?
Posted 3 years ago #
1. does the same thing happen when you use those characters in a post?
2. are they still question marks if you edit the comment or post in the admin section?
Posted 3 years ago #
Yes, no matter where, post or comment, some characters are not displayed. And when editing a post for example, or seeing a comment in the admin section they show up the same as on the page.
I switched the WP (only, left Apache and MySQL as they were) setting to WINDOWS-1257 (Baltic) and the latvian characters where showing up fine, but when you try to edit that post you get the whole text in HTML entities(?) (e.g. #097; etc.) which is also bad.
Looks like I'll have to fully switch back to WINDOWS-1257...
Posted 3 years ago #
Samme issue here with Debian Sarge, Apache 2, MySQL 4.1 and WP1.5.
Posted 3 years ago #
I've also got the same problems with stuff like: é, ï, etc.
Apache ?, PHP 4.?, WP 1.5
Posted 2 years ago #
Had the same problems with my own forum and unicode lately, but thankfully I found this in the PHP online manual:
"If you experience weird problems, like some UTF-8 characters (the Unicode character č and a few others in my case) seemingly being changed to garbage by mysql_query, you may need to do something like this before your actual query:
<?php
mysql_query("SET NAMES 'utf8'", $conn);
?>"
So is this being done by Wordpress? I think not because there are plenty of posts about the same issue. Any developer comments..?
I don't think it's WP.
More likely something with the server's settings.
Check out the second post from above (Font test):
http://www.transycan.net/blogtest/
Posted 2 years ago #
The latvian characters look OK on your WP.
Anyway I haven't still figured out what the problem really is, but that query definitely helps.
Posted 2 years ago #
Hi i think it is still WP, because if i enter a Blogname directly inti the database with phpMyadmin, then it shows correcly until i let display it with WP. Afther that i check this again in phpMyadmin the entries are wrong again.
i use WAMP on XP.
Posted 2 years ago #
I correct my post above, since my blog is uploaded, everything is fine.
Tha problem is in WinXP and WAMP.
Posted 2 years ago #
Here is a solution.
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