Title: Japanese encoding issue
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Japanese encoding issue

 *  [mattto](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mattto/)
 * (@mattto)
 * [16 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/japanese-encoding-issue/)
 * Hi,
    i have just installed WordPress in Japanese, the displayed font are working
   without any problem, but if i try to edit a post or add a news post is japanese
   the text change into ????? , and if i try to change the post title nothing is
   saved, same if i try to setup the blog tittle in japanese, nothing is saved…
 * but something strange, all the demo data (in Japanese) are working perfectly,
   the problem occur only when i try to edit or add a news post in Japanese.
 * Thanks you in advance, any help will be greatly appreciated.

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 *  Thread Starter [mattto](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mattto/)
 * (@mattto)
 * [16 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/japanese-encoding-issue/#post-1455952)
 * Up (@^_^@)
 *  Thread Starter [mattto](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mattto/)
 * (@mattto)
 * [16 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/japanese-encoding-issue/#post-1456160)
 * help 😀
 *  [Naoko Takano](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nao/)
 * (@nao)
 * [16 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/japanese-encoding-issue/#post-1456237)
 * Hi mattto.
 * Not quite sure how the demo data was inserted, but it sounds like you have database
   character set/collation issue.
    Check your database to make sure they are both
   UTF-8. The character set should be UTF-8 Unicode and collation should be utf8_general_ci.
   If they are not, create a new database with correct settings and start over from
   scratch. Try using the latest Japanese WordPress package downloaded from [http://ja.wordpress.org/](http://ja.wordpress.org/).
 * More info:
    [http://codex.wordpress.org/Converting_Database_Character_Sets](http://codex.wordpress.org/Converting_Database_Character_Sets)
 *  Thread Starter [mattto](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mattto/)
 * (@mattto)
 * [16 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/japanese-encoding-issue/#post-1456247)
 * Hi Nao,
    Thanks you for your help, i will check that…
 * Regards

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## Tags

 * [encoding](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/encoding/)
 * [font](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/font/)
 * [japanese](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/japanese/)

 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 4 replies
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 * Last reply from: [mattto](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mattto/)
 * Last activity: [16 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/japanese-encoding-issue/#post-1456247)
 * Status: not resolved

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