[How-TO] Enable Unicode Support in WordPress Posts

  August 2, 2010Category  How To

I previously had some problems when I mixed Unicode with WordPress. Every time I typed a Unicode character, (after posting) it would display as a ‘?’. Basically, the problem is that WordPress is not saving Unicode characters. This problem will not be there for WordPress blogs hosted on wordpress.com server.

Of course, this can be easily fixed in two steps. All you’ll need is FTP access to your server and a fair comprehension of how to type. So, let’s get started!

  1. Open up ‘wp-config.php’ from the root directory of your WordPress installation.
  2. Add ‘//’ at the very beginning of these two lines:
    define('DB_CHARSET', 'utf8');
define('DB_COLLATE', '');

So that section should now look like this:

//define('DB_CHARSET', 'utf8');
//define('DB_COLLATE', '');

You’re already finished. How easy was that?

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