Title: %%excerpt%%
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# %%excerpt%%

 *  [stathis_k91](https://wordpress.org/support/users/stathis_k91/)
 * (@stathis_k91)
 * [13 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/excerpt-16/)
 * Hi,
    the %%excerpt%% tag doesn’t make a description for custom post types,for
   Greek language, it appears like ???????????
 * Thanks
    Stathis
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 *  [P](https://wordpress.org/support/users/paulsanduleac/)
 * (@paulsanduleac)
 * [13 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/excerpt-16/#post-3164117)
 * On Yoast SEO 1.2.8.7, WP 3.4.2 same for content in russian. But only for auto-
   generated excerpts, if I write it manually it works ok.
 *  Thread Starter [stathis_k91](https://wordpress.org/support/users/stathis_k91/)
 * (@stathis_k91)
 * [13 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/excerpt-16/#post-3164121)
 * I need it for auto-generated excerpts, i have the description empty until the
   developer fix the bug.
 *  [okito](https://wordpress.org/support/users/okito/)
 * (@okito)
 * [13 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/excerpt-16/#post-3164122)
 * You must edit wpseo-functions.php.
    Change this : `utf8_encode( substr( strip_shortcodes(
   strip_tags( utf8_decode( $r->post_content ) ) ), 0, 155 ) ),` to : `wp_html_excerpt(
   strip_shortcodes( $r->post_content ), 155 ),`
 *  Thread Starter [stathis_k91](https://wordpress.org/support/users/stathis_k91/)
 * (@stathis_k91)
 * [13 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/excerpt-16/#post-3164123)
 * Thanks okito,
 * the description work now

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 * Last reply from: [stathis_k91](https://wordpress.org/support/users/stathis_k91/)
 * Last activity: [13 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/excerpt-16/#post-3164123)
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