Title: Multilingual encoding problem
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Multilingual encoding problem

 *  [PashaKagan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/munkyhead86/)
 * (@munkyhead86)
 * [15 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multilingual-encoding-problem/)
 * Hello,
    I am responsible for a blog of a user that posts in multiple languages,
   the installation itself is English.
 * The person posted in Hebrew. He got question marks instead of text.
    I’ve done
   some snooping around and found this wp-config.php tweak: _define(‘DB\_CHARSET’,‘
   utf8’);_ into _define(‘DB\_CHARSET’, ”);_
 * It worked for Hebrew, but broke all special Italian characters.
 * What can I do to enjoy both worlds?

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 *  Thread Starter [PashaKagan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/munkyhead86/)
 * (@munkyhead86)
 * [15 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multilingual-encoding-problem/#post-2088051)
 * bump?
 *  Thread Starter [PashaKagan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/munkyhead86/)
 * (@munkyhead86)
 * [15 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multilingual-encoding-problem/#post-2088064)
 * I’ve found a seemingly good solution. First of all – it seems that removing the
   encoding actually helps – but only from the point it is changed. It means that
   it’s OK from now on, but I still have to find a solution for all the existing
   posts and remove their encoding.

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 * [language](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/language/)
 * [utf8](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/utf8/)

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 * Last reply from: [PashaKagan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/munkyhead86/)
 * Last activity: [15 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multilingual-encoding-problem/#post-2088064)
 * Status: not resolved

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