Title: Make wordpress use gb2312?
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Make wordpress use gb2312?

 *  [torsteino](https://wordpress.org/support/users/torsteino/)
 * (@torsteino)
 * [15 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/make-wordpress-use-gb2312/)
 * Hi,
    I am working on setting up a wordpress-site where the information will be
   in chinese. I have gotten information from the person in china, who will be entering
   the information, that they use gb2312 character encoding. I am working from norway,
   using utf-8, which has until now lead to us only getting gibberish on the website
   when viewing it here, while it has looked “correct” in chinese.
 * Also – when I recieved a word-document with the chinese text, and I copied/pasted
   this into wordpress, it worked both here and in china, but when they enter the
   text themselves, things look correct there, and gibberish here.
 * I have tried now to set it to
 *     ```
       /** Database Charset to use in creating database tables. */
       define('DB_CHARSET', 'gb2312_chinese_ci');
   
       /** The Database Collate type. Don't change this if in doubt. */
       define('DB_COLLATE', 'gb2312_chinese_ci');
       ```
   
 * in wp-config, but am unsure if this is correct?

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 *  Thread Starter [torsteino](https://wordpress.org/support/users/torsteino/)
 * (@torsteino)
 * [14 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/make-wordpress-use-gb2312/#post-2087452)
 * Ok, gb2312_chinese_ci is definately not correct, still only getting gibberish
   like
    ‘ ¡¶ÓÐÈ˽«ÖÁ¡·Ñݳö¡ª¡ªÒÑÈ¡Ïû ‘

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