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

By: friend21

friend21 — Fri, 10 Jun 2011 20:21:13 +0000

This didn’t work for me in WordPress 3.1… I am having the same issue on Dreamhost (with apostrophes and special characters in titles) and adding that code to similar place in the wp-db.php had no effect. Any ideas?

By: thelostseoul

thelostseoul — Sun, 06 Mar 2011 17:26:22 +0000

Thank you for this post. Even though I do not use DreamHost, the issue is the same at other hosts. Thank you again.

PS The only thing that I would add is that there is sometimes login error language which may (or may not) make your directions a little unclear. That said, if you are careful, then it is no problem.

By: Pete

Pete — Tue, 16 Nov 2010 11:14:49 +0000

I tried by changing the wp-config file, as I read somewhere else, but it didn’t help.
I’ll try your suggestions now. tnx

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…….