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?
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.
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
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?
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?;-)
However my categories have changed to ‘????’ so not quite everything was fixed.
