Title: Hebrew Encoding
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Hebrew Encoding

 *  [redhurricane](https://wordpress.org/support/users/redhurricane/)
 * (@redhurricane)
 * [21 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/hebrew-encoding/)
 * Hello everyone!
    I’m having some troubles with Hebrew encoding on my blog. It’s
   in Hebrew as you may understand, and right now encoded as default (WP default)
   with utf-8 which isn’t the recommended encoding for the language. Those which
   are recommended for use are windows0-1255 and ISO-8859.
 * On my blog page there is the blog data and Hebrew paragraphs which do not come
   from the blog itself (just plain text in Hebrew I’ve added). In the UTF-8 encoding,
   that independent text is shown as gibrish.
    Anyway- While configuring my blog
   at the prefernces as any encoding other than utf-8, the whole blog is messed 
   up. However when it’s back to utf-8 my own Hebrew text is back to it’s gibrish-
   self 🙁 how do I solve this?
 * I took the time to describe this with a little screenshot:
    [http://img173.exs.cx/img173/8682/wordpress4hn.jpg](http://img173.exs.cx/img173/8682/wordpress4hn.jpg)
 * I hope you’ll be able to help me!
    Thank you, Sarit

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 *  [Ryan Boren](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ryan/)
 * (@ryan)
 * [21 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/hebrew-encoding/#post-137491)
 * You can either convert the UTF-8 encoded WP language file to ISO-8859, find a
   language file that is already in ISO-8859, or convert your posts to UTF-8 and
   make sure you have a UTF-8 encoded Hebrew font installed. Both the language file
   and the posts must be in the same encoding. [This page](http://www.alanwood.net/unicode/hebrew.html)
   has some resources that may be useful. UTF-8 is usually preferred and recommended.
 *  [serendipity](https://wordpress.org/support/users/serendipity/)
 * (@serendipity)
 * [21 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/hebrew-encoding/#post-137514)
 * The text you marked as “gibberish Hebrew (not blog text)” is, I presume, hardcoded
   in your template (meaning, you typed it into the template file)? In this case,
   the important step is to safe the template in utf-8 encoding. Any good editor(
   for HTML or coding) will have this option ready.
 * In principle, you could use either ISO 8859-8 or utf-8, provided that everything(
   the template, the blog option setting…) is in the same encoding. In practice,
   utf-8 is more universal. It is also the preferred format for localization files.
   And you are free to mix Hebrew text with any other characters in your blog if
   you use utf-8.

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
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 * 3 participants
 * Last reply from: [serendipity](https://wordpress.org/support/users/serendipity/)
 * Last activity: [21 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/hebrew-encoding/#post-137514)
 * Status: not resolved

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