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Enable unicode utf-8 characters in wordpress blog title

By Silver Moon On Jul 25, 2009 5 Comments

WordPress and unicode

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.

Last Updated On : 25th July 2009

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  • http://trestian.com Yaron

    Thanks so much! This allowed me to give a blog a hebrew title. Lifesaver!

  • http://www.mydomain.com Tonmoy

    Thanks a lot

  • Prabhjot S. Kashyap

    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.

  • Teresa

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

  • buddhika

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

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