Jul
25
2009
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Unicode UTF-8 characters in WordPress Blog Title

Author An article by Binary Tides    Comments 4 Comments

Sometime back I was trying to put unicode characters(utf-8) in the title of a blog from wp-admin > settings > general. After saving it became like ?????????.

All pages had utf-8 in their meta tags so the issue was somewhere else. A working solution was found :

1. Go to phpmyadmin and select the database of this blog
2. Select table wp_options and then click operations. In table options box change collation to utf8_unicode_ci which is the last option.
3. Also change the collation of individual columns e.g.option_value to utf8_unicode_ci

Changing the table and column collation property made the thing work right.

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  • Tonmoy October 18, 2011 at 11:34 am

    Thanks a lot

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  • Prabhjot S. Kashyap December 25, 2010 at 4:46 pm

    I am facing the same problem. I tried the above steps but still same problem. I want to use Punjab Fonts Unicode. Anybody pls help.

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  • Teresa July 3, 2010 at 12:02 am

    Thanks so much! Couldn’t figure out how to make my Hebrew title display properly until I found this post.

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  • buddhika March 18, 2010 at 7:54 am

    THank you very much, I was trying my best to display SInhala Unicode, and this article was very useful.

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