Title: Problem with encoding
Last modified: June 20, 2017

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# Problem with encoding

 *  Resolved [oasiskoktebel](https://wordpress.org/support/users/oasiskoktebel/)
 * (@oasiskoktebel)
 * [8 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-with-encoding-4/)
 * Hello,
    Very useful plugin, thank you! But I encountered a problem with encoding.
   When installed your plugin changes encoding of ALL ! texts on my site (though
   visibly everything is OK). The site is in cyrillic. Here is the part of the code
   before and after installing PB SEO Friendly. [https://jsfiddle.net/c7hmbv7h/](https://jsfiddle.net/c7hmbv7h/)
   Any ideas how to fix it? Thank you.

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 *  Plugin Author [PascalBajorat](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pascalbajorat/)
 * (@pascalbajorat)
 * [8 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-with-encoding-4/#post-9243758)
 * hey,
 * please check if your system supports “mb_convert_encoding”. the plugin use mb_convert_encoding
   to use a correct encoding but it also try to work without it, if that is not 
   installed and that could cause some problems.
 * Please check your php settings for “mb_convert_encoding” and tell me if it is
   available or not.
 * kindly
    Pascal
 *  Thread Starter [oasiskoktebel](https://wordpress.org/support/users/oasiskoktebel/)
 * (@oasiskoktebel)
 * [8 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-with-encoding-4/#post-9244506)
 * Thank you for your fast reply.
    Looks like the server doesn’t use this function.
 *  Plugin Author [PascalBajorat](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pascalbajorat/)
 * (@pascalbajorat)
 * [8 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-with-encoding-4/#post-9244524)
 * That is bad, because you need it for best encoding results.
 *  Thread Starter [oasiskoktebel](https://wordpress.org/support/users/oasiskoktebel/)
 * (@oasiskoktebel)
 * [8 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-with-encoding-4/#post-9246378)
 * Though I left a msg with my hosting provider and they sent me full settings of
   the server. There is such string there:
 * Registered Stream Filters
    zlib.*, bzip2.*, convert.iconv.*, string.rot13, string.
   toupper, string.tolower, string.strip_tags, convert.*, consumed, dechunk, http.*,
   mcrypt.*, mdecrypt.*
 * convert.iconv – is what we need?
 *  Plugin Author [PascalBajorat](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pascalbajorat/)
 * (@pascalbajorat)
 * [8 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-with-encoding-4/#post-9247330)
 * You can test that easily:
 * Create a php file with that content and open it in your browser
 *     ```
       <?php
       if( function_exists('mb_convert_encoding') ) {
           echo 'available.';
       } else {
           echo 'NOT available.';
       }
       ```
   
 *  Thread Starter [oasiskoktebel](https://wordpress.org/support/users/oasiskoktebel/)
 * (@oasiskoktebel)
 * [8 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-with-encoding-4/#post-9248137)
 * Tried it. Shows Available.
 *  Plugin Author [PascalBajorat](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pascalbajorat/)
 * (@pascalbajorat)
 * [8 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-with-encoding-4/#post-9248157)
 * What type of encoding do you use for your content? utf-8 or any other?
 *  Thread Starter [oasiskoktebel](https://wordpress.org/support/users/oasiskoktebel/)
 * (@oasiskoktebel)
 * [8 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-with-encoding-4/#post-9248175)
 * utf-8
 *  Plugin Author [PascalBajorat](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pascalbajorat/)
 * (@pascalbajorat)
 * [8 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-with-encoding-4/#post-9254933)
 * Really strange, because the system ist optimized for utf8. Please try the next
   update in a few days, maybe this will help.

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