Title: DB character encoding to utf8
Last modified: August 29, 2020

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# DB character encoding to utf8

 *  [tsaba123](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tsaba123/)
 * (@tsaba123)
 * [5 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/db-character-encoding-to-utf8/)
 * Hi,
 * Please change the default character encoding in DB varchar coluns to utf8_general_ci
   from latin1. There are some characters in alphabets in some language where ? 
   appears instead of the original characters.
 * Thank you.

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 * Last activity: [5 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/db-character-encoding-to-utf8/)
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