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nfrost21
Member
Posted 1 year ago #

I'm working on a wordpress site for a spanish client.

The original installation (dashboard and blog) was in English and I updated both to Spanish using the following steps:

1. Downloaded es_ES.mo
2. Upload to /wp-content/languages/
2. Changed line to " define ('WPLANG', 'es_ES'); " in the wp-config.php file.

I expected this to fix my problem as when i few source the following looks correct:

<html dir="ltr" lang="es-ES">
<meta charset="UTF-8" />

...however special characters like "ñ" are broken in the blog. (the dashboard is correctly translated to Spanish.

Any ideas appreciated!
caceresalexj
Member
Posted 1 year ago #

Hi there, any luck with this? because I'm in the same situation, now
nfrost21
Member
Posted 1 year ago #

Hello -

It was a problem with the encoding of one of the files i had taken some HTML from.

I fixed the problem by:
1. changing text-encoding to UTF-8 in my text-editor (notepad ++)
2. Replacing the broken special characters in the file and
3. Uploading the UTF-8 encoded file.

Hope this works for you!

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