Problems with UTF-8

  • incubus

    (@incubus)


    20 years ago

    I have a webserver home – Windows XP Pro SP2 + Apache 2.0.52 (default charset set to UTF-8) + MySQL 4.1 (defaults to multilanguage UTF-8). I put the new WP 1.5 on it and set that I’ll use UTF-8 for it. The problem is that some latvian and russian characters show up as black boxes and question marks. What could be the trouble?

    Some latvian and russian characters:
    ?“?????????￡?·????????
    ??????????????????±??.

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  • Thread Starter incubus

    (@incubus)

    OK, on this page everything shows up as it should so the problem is somewhere on my server. Any advice?

    pericat

    (@pericat)

    website address?

    Thread Starter incubus

    (@incubus)

    https://insomnia.id.lv/wp/

    pericat

    (@pericat)

    1. does the same thing happen when you use those characters in a post?

    2. are they still question marks if you edit the comment or post in the admin section?

    Thread Starter incubus

    (@incubus)

    Yes, no matter where, post or comment, some characters are not displayed. And when editing a post for example, or seeing a comment in the admin section they show up the same as on the page.

    I switched the WP (only, left Apache and MySQL as they were) setting to WINDOWS-1257 (Baltic) and the latvian characters where showing up fine, but when you try to edit that post you get the whole text in HTML entities(?) (e.g. #097; etc.) which is also bad.

    Looks like I’ll have to fully switch back to WINDOWS-1257…

    geddeth

    (@geddeth)

    Samme issue here with Debian Sarge, Apache 2, MySQL 4.1 and WP1.5.

    Hannah S.L.

    (@fernashes)

    Automattic Happiness Engineer

    I’ve also got the same problems with stuff like: ??, ?ˉ, etc.

    Apache ?, PHP 4.?, WP 1.5

    Thread Starter incubus

    (@incubus)

    Had the same problems with my own forum and unicode lately, but thankfully I found this in the PHP online manual:

    “If you experience weird problems, like some UTF-8 characters (the Unicode character &#x010D and a few others in my case) seemingly being changed to garbage by mysql_query, you may need to do something like this before your actual query:

    <?php
    mysql_query(“SET NAMES ‘utf8′”, $conn);
    ?>”

    So is this being done by WordPress? I think not because there are plenty of posts about the same issue. Any developer comments..?

    I don’t think it’s WP.
    More likely something with the server’s settings.
    Check out the second post from above (Font test):
    https://www.transycan.net/blogtest/

    Thread Starter incubus

    (@incubus)

    The latvian characters look OK on your WP.

    Anyway I haven’t still figured out what the problem really is, but that query definitely helps.

    Hi i think it is still WP, because if i enter a Blogname directly inti the database with phpMyadmin, then it shows correcly until i let display it with WP. Afther that i check this again in phpMyadmin the entries are wrong again.
    i use WAMP on XP.

    I correct my post above, since my blog is uploaded, everything is fine.
    Tha problem is in WinXP and WAMP.

    Here is a solution.

    https://blog.alfdesign.sk/?p=2

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