Title: he_IL.po
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# he_IL.po

 *  [aviv](https://wordpress.org/support/users/aviv/)
 * (@aviv)
 * [21 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/he_ilpo/)
 * Well, this may sound like a dumb question..
    but i’ve tried to download the he_IL.
   po file – which wasn’t easy: i pasted the wiki content into my pc (windows based)
   as a utf-8 file, and then uploaded the file to my linux server- but then after
   the ftp upload (with bin or without bin upload) 3 weired characters (“”)
   were added to the beginning of the file. unable to get rid of these charcters(
   using vi) without screwing the character coding on the file, i used a binary-
   editor on linux to get rid of these 3 characters, and ran msgfmt on it, created
   the .mo file in the correct location, and changed the WPLANG entry on wp-config.
   php file. and then… got gibrish instead of the hebrew titles on the blog. has
   anyone experienced something similar? it’s definitely not a problem in the po
   file, as when i view it on my windows-based pc i can clearly see the hebrew messages-
   my guess is that it’s a pc-linux charset issue.

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 *  [tomerc](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tomerc/)
 * (@tomerc)
 * [21 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/he_ilpo/#post-65132)
 * Those 3 characters are the UTF-8 identification; It’s good to have them, but 
   gettext doesn’t know how to interpert them. Use a lame editor (edit.com in Windows,
   pico/nano/joe in Linux) to remove them, than gettext will translate the strings
   as if they were regular latin-1 encoding.
    It will work fine, since the PHP files
   do declare a UTF-8 encoding to the browser.
 *  Anonymous
 * [21 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/he_ilpo/#post-65150)
 * àðé àáãå÷…. âí ìé ðøàä ùàéï éåúø îéãé ëàìä á
   ðñ.

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 * Last activity: [21 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/he_ilpo/#post-65150)
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