Copy + pasting Kannada Content

  • Resolved veeraj.john

    (@veerajjohn)


    4 years, 10 months ago

    Hello,
    I am trying to copy paste Kannada language content on the website. The front end however looks fine with the proper Kannada fonts. (I’ve used custom fonts).

    The issue is with the back-end.

    The title and content appear gibberish!

    Screenshots for reference:
    https://ibb.co/cLZ3MZs
    https://ibb.co/WzKgf9w

    Can someone guide me on what i am missing?

    tried Database character sets & collation set to
    utf8 , utf8mb4 and collation utf8_general_ci
    utf8mb4 and collation utf8mb4_unicode_ci

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  • Moderator bcworkz

    (@bcworkz)

    4 years, 9 months ago

    Collation by itself wouldn’t affect appearance, it only affects the ordering of query results. The default UTF-8 charset ought to work fine though. I think your trouble is with the source text you copied from. It apparently isn’t UTF-8 encoded as well. For example, I copied a portion of Kannada text from the Wikipedia example (UTF-8 encoded) and pasted it into the title of a new post on my WP test site. It renders exactly the same as the source in both front and back end.

    Then why would your front end appear correctly? I couldn’t say without examining a representative page. Maybe it got HTML encoded so the charset doesn’t matter.

    Thread Starter veeraj.john

    (@veerajjohn)

    4 years, 9 months ago

    Thank you for your reply, and am sorry to respond late. Must have missed the notification.

    Yes, The issue was the source i copied from. The client had provided me with a word document which had the content typed directly with a Kannada typing software called “nudi”.

    The client had to resend me the word file with the Kannada text and saving the word file with the encoding set to UNICODE UTF 8 (available in the options in the save/save as Menu)

    For some reason, it dint work for me when i tried to do the same with the previously given word file.

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