Title: Multi lingual issues
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Multi lingual issues

 *  Resolved [asilverstone](https://wordpress.org/support/users/asilverstone/)
 * (@asilverstone)
 * [16 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multi-lingual-issues/)
 * OK, this has got to be resolved.
 * I am using 2.8.2 and as of yet can not find a solution to the problem of using
   other languages in posts. I am frequently quoted in foreign (to the US) magazine
   and need the ability to refer to them. This even applies to some western-European
   chars.
 * Here is a brief summary of all I tried:
 * 1) Using native TinyMCE to insert chars – converts them to ???
    2) Using FCKEdit–
   same result 3) Removing UTF8 from Php config – creates many other problems with
   characters in the blog, but does let me insert most other languages. 4) Converting
   chars with converters to Unicode, which yields a result similar to “Комисията
   за защита на личните данни ” (not sure if this will show here, but those are 
   Russian letters converted to a format of &#abcd where abcd are numbers. – auto
   converts them again to ???? upon posting. 5) Using the anyfont plugin, which 
   sometimes works, but only if I upload individual TTFs for foreign languages, 
   and sometimes is not good enough. 6) needless (?) to say, <span style and <span
   lang definitions make NO difference what so ever.
 * Site is arielsilverstone.com and good example of what I had to do, which may 
   or may not show to you is [http://arielsilverstone.com/periodical/periodicals/](http://arielsilverstone.com/periodical/periodicals/)

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 *  Thread Starter [asilverstone](https://wordpress.org/support/users/asilverstone/)
 * (@asilverstone)
 * [16 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multi-lingual-issues/#post-1161924)
 * And of course, to make matters worse…here they work.
 *  Thread Starter [asilverstone](https://wordpress.org/support/users/asilverstone/)
 * (@asilverstone)
 * [16 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multi-lingual-issues/#post-1161930)
 * And yes, I tried myPHPAdmin – it is linked to mySQL at utf8:
 * > # MySQL charset: UTF-8 Unicode (utf8)
   >  # MySQL connection collation UTF8_Unicode_ci
 *  Thread Starter [asilverstone](https://wordpress.org/support/users/asilverstone/)
 * (@asilverstone)
 * [16 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multi-lingual-issues/#post-1162139)
 * Problem solved!
 * The issue was that apparently, even though the link is UTF8, a certain subset
   of all MySQL installs (perhaps all? not sure) gets their tables defaulting to
   Latin1-Swedish for some reason. I had to manually change all tables to UTF8 using
   PHP admin and… viola
 * (according to wpedia, MySQL is owned and sponsored by a single for-profit firm,
   the Swedish company MySQL AB, )
 * Apparently, there are about 166K google pages on this subject.

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 * Last reply from: [asilverstone](https://wordpress.org/support/users/asilverstone/)
 * Last activity: [16 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multi-lingual-issues/#post-1162139)
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