Hello Moony,
Sorry it took so long to respond. I just found your post. You can change the character encoding of your site quite easily. Open your wp-admin interface, click Presentation > Theme Editor > Main Template. Under the meta tag that labels the generator used to create the site
<meta name="generator" content="<?php bloginfo('version'); ?>" />
enter another meta tag:
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso 8859-5" />
You could optionally put koi8-r as the charset.
See the W3C site for more information about this.
~Jonathan
Isn’t it easier to change it in the Options > Reading?
The only potential problem can come from the conflict between the encoding used for the translation (.po > .mo files) and the encoding that you’ll set in the Options. If they are not the same, the translation might not work properly.
Yeah, you’re right, moshu. I never noticed it. I migrated from a static site and imported my meta tags via copy-and-paste. I just upgraded to 1.5.1; has the head data changed back to default, or should I manually change it? I’m using UTF-8, so there really shouldn’t be any problems with my site, but Moony might have the difficulties you talk of. The only other meta tags I included were keywords and description. I also included a link to anti-leech.com‘s “spambot stopper”. The plugins have never seemed to work for me, although it’s probably my fault :).
~Jonathan
