Comments on: WordPress, DreamHost, UTF-8 encoding and international characters

By: Prashant

Prashant — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 07:57:12 +0000

Is there a plugin to do the same? Changing the character set in mysql may seem tricky for non programmers and would be much easier to do it from within wordpress admin.

By: Laura Conrad

Laura Conrad — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 19:17:19 +0000

Thanks. This was driving me nuts. In my case, it wasn’t the wordpress that wouldn’t take the accented character (that seems to have been fixed in the last two years), but another database I was using. I could put in the accented character and see it in phpmyadmin, I could put an accented character into a post in my wordpress database, I could display the data in a wordpress blog on another machine, but I could not see the accent in my dreamhost wordpress page.

By: Moliv

Moliv — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 01:55:43 +0000

Thanks for the post, I have been having the same problems.

By: wadeball

wadeball — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 21:49:45 +0000

Thanks for your interesting article

By: Paulo

Paulo — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 17:35:38 +0000

Thank you so much! I have wasted long hours trying to fix this problem! Thank you!

By: diamondTearz

diamondTearz — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 23:44:33 +0000

Thank you for this. I just updated my blog and for some reason started to have problems with this. Googled all over before I found your post.

By: fields marshall

fields marshall — Sun, 18 Mar 2007 15:47:38 +0000

Thanks very helpful information explained well. I had to dig around the wordpress site a while ago ..

I originally had my site on dreamhost and now moved it over to textdrive and noticed the same thing.

It would be nice if wordpress would put this into their codebase somehow as thefantastico installer and other automated updaters will overwrite the wp-db.php file . .

By: Firefox

Firefox — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 04:45:09 +0000

WordPress And International Characters…

WordPress made easy, even with Ajax…….