UTF-8 to windows-1251

  • kr3t3n

    (@kr3t3n)


    17 years ago

    Hi, I have a running 2.3 WordPress site which has been installed on the default UTF-8 character encoding. My site is in Bulgarian and thus I face some difficulties with this encoding. I need to switch to windows-1251 but I can’t seem to find a way to that without losing all my database. Can you please help me?

    Or!!! Is there a way, to import windows-1251 content to my UTF-8 wordpress? The exact opposite too, my UTF-8 content to another windows-1251?

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  • moshu

    (@moshu)

    My site is in Bulgarian and thus I face some difficulties with this encoding.

    You shouldn’t. If you write your blog (as opposed to copy/paste from a windows-1251 source… it should display correctly! utf-8 is universal for all languages.

    Where are you importing from?

    Thread Starter kr3t3n

    (@kr3t3n)

    It’s not a problem of importing. I cannot embed content from windows-1251 sites. For example, the forum is in windows-1251 and I cannot put latest posts on the blog. Also, other sites cannot embed my RSS news into their sites, because they are in windows-1251.

    moshu

    (@moshu)

    But if your blog has been written in utf-8 you cannot just decide one day that you want to change the encoding. It will mess up everything in your blog.

    (Everybody should use utf-8 in every program: that’s why it has been invented to avoid the headaches…)

    Thread Starter kr3t3n

    (@kr3t3n)

    thanks for the advice…:)

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