Comments on: Chinese Characters in Wordpress

By: Marcus

Marcus — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 23:09:33 +0000

Is there any way to restore chacters that have changed into “??” ?

By: Marcus

Marcus — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 21:54:43 +0000

Once WordPress was updated, all the Chinese characters were changed to “?”…I can type Chinese now, but is there any way to restore the old posts?
Thanks!

By: Charlie

Charlie — Sat, 10 Apr 2010 09:03:16 +0000

I’ve been trying to figure this out, too. Whenever I add chinese to sidebar widgets, the widgets disappear. I changed almost all of the collation fields in the database to utf8_unicode but still no luck.

I posted this on wordpress.org, hopefully someone knows where that particular change needs to be made: http://wordpress.org/support/topic/386235?replies=1#post-1472123

By: Howard

Howard — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 00:49:21 +0000

I too, was having problem with posting Chinese characters on my blog. After following your instructions to update the collations for the appropriate DB rows, it worked like a charm!!! Thanks JON!!!!

By: Jon

Jon — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 14:23:10 +0000

I am not sure about widget titles. You might try to apply the utf8_unicode_ci collation on as many of the text/varchar fields in your database as you can–it’s possible you just need to affect a database field that is specific to widget titles. You could go through each table in the database one by one, and change the collation field over so that it uses unicode (rather than latin1_swedish_ci, which is the typical default).

By: Phil de Fontenay

Phil de Fontenay — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 13:39:57 +0000

Hi Jon,

Thanks for the info on setting up for Chinese.

I have Thesis and I am using Wordpress in Taiwan (big5).
I had no trouble setting it up and it is working fine except…
When I try to input titles into widgets using big5 it won’t accept it and I just get the ??? kind of thing. Do you have any idea where I am missing a setting?

Thanks,

Phil