Enteries in utf-8 working partially

  • Hi Guys
    I am using 1.2-prerelease at https://pnarula.com/wordpress to create a Hindi blog. I am able to write Hindi text in on the New Entry page. Save it as draft and then open it again later for further editing. Problem I am facing is when this entry is published it craps up and shows as garbage on the public site.
    I understand I am using pre-release version but if someone can point me in the right direction I would appreciate it a lot. On a sidenote, I am trying to switch from MT which I use for two of the blogs I have
    https://hindi.pnarula.com/haanbhai
    https://hindi.pnarula.com/akshargram
    Thanks for the help.
    Pankaj

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  • Thread Starter pankaj

    (@pankaj)

    Fast Response. Quick note before I discovered WP, I did the localization of MT for Hindi and WP is on the list. But I have to get atleast the publish thingy working correctly. So this SOS for help.
    Pankaj

    there is another guy netAhoy something.
    he does something similar ??
    cant help u technically though.
    i am not smart ??

    Thread Starter pankaj

    (@pankaj)

    Yep NetAhoy is Amit. He started localizing MT which I picked up and completed. But personally I feel backend of WP is much more stronger. So the swtich. In any case my professional blog when ever it is completed is going to be on WP.
    Pankaj

    so how many MTs are there in Hindi?

    Thread Starter pankaj

    (@pankaj)

    Help Please…..

    pankaj u are better off at the IRC…
    channel name: #wordpress

    I want a Hindi WordPress blog too!!!
    Maybe then my parents can start their own blog in Hindi!!!

    Thanks to Pankaj, I figured out how to write stuff in Hindi using the Indic IME from Microsoft.
    I am for now, cutting and pasting from Notepad to the WP Post box.
    I also noticed that the WP admin pages are all Western iso-8859-15
    I am using WP 1.01, is that why? Pankaj was telling me that WP should be Unicode UTF-8
    The other problem I have is that after pasting the text from Notepad, it shows correctly on IE but not on Mozilla based browsers, Netscape and Firefox.
    Here is a link:
    https://prashantmullick.com/flog/
    Any ideas why this is happening?

    Yes, I have the same problem! I can type Indic posts in the WordPress post text area, or I can cut and paste from another source. Anyway, I am posting valid Unicode Devanagari script of Nepali texts.

    It shows up properly in MS Internet Explorer, but not in Mozilla. But it does show up fine in the WordPress post page, and on the preview on the lower part of that page.

    In other words, it’s stored fine, and Mozilla is able to show Indic Unicode fine. But WordPress must be doing some mangling processing when it shows the post on the main page.

    You can see a sample here:
    https://insn.org/index.php?p=114

    (If you don’t know what good Devanagari looks like, it doesn’t have all those dotted-line circles. Those are some kind of placeholder for some Davanagari characters, and they should not show up in the final text.)

    As an old-time coder, my suspicion is that some algorithm is taking the post and spitting it out character-by-character with some invisible spacer in between, and this is breaking up all the character combinations. In Devanagari, characters show differently depending on what is immediately before or after it, because they combine together. If they are broken up then they show up as free-standing versions with that dotted line circle as placeholder.

    I even tried a plug-in called wpunformatted that I found on the net, but it didn’t change anything.

    How can I stop WordPress from mangling my beautiful Nepali texts?

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