Problem with UTF-8 for Russian text

  • I have had problems with UTF-8 for Russian text when trying to install WP on my website. In IE it worked OK but not in FireFox. The .htaccess trick did not help.

    Can I change the blog encoding to windows-1251 for convenience? How can I do it? Can it affect the work of the blog?

    Please help!
    Thanks to everybody in advance!

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  • Hello Moony,

    Sorry it took so long to respond. I just found your post. You can change the character encoding of your site quite easily. Open your wp-admin interface, click Presentation > Theme Editor > Main Template. Under the meta tag that labels the generator used to create the site
    <meta name="generator" content="<?php bloginfo('version'); ?>" />
    enter another meta tag:
    <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso 8859-5" />
    You could optionally put koi8-r as the charset.
    See the W3C site for more information about this.

    ~Jonathan

    Isn’t it easier to change it in the Options > Reading?
    The only potential problem can come from the conflict between the encoding used for the translation (.po > .mo files) and the encoding that you’ll set in the Options. If they are not the same, the translation might not work properly.

    Yeah, you’re right, moshu. I never noticed it. I migrated from a static site and imported my meta tags via copy-and-paste. I just upgraded to 1.5.1; has the head data changed back to default, or should I manually change it? I’m using UTF-8, so there really shouldn’t be any problems with my site, but Moony might have the difficulties you talk of. The only other meta tags I included were keywords and description. I also included a link to anti-leech.com‘s “spambot stopper”. The plugins have never seemed to work for me, although it’s probably my fault :).

    ~Jonathan

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