Chinese Characters in WordPress

Chinese characters do not work in WordPress by default if you didn’t
originally setup your WordPress to handle Chinese.

However, it is pretty easy to get it working. I didn’t see it
documented elsewhere, so I thought I’d post instructions on configuring
WordPress to allow posting Chinese.

* Using a program (like phpMyAdmin) to administer your database,
select the WordPress database.

* Find the wp_posts table, and click on the “structure” icon (it is
the second from the left under Actions)

* Click the “pencil” icon on the wp_content table.

* Change the Collation option to utf8_unicode_ci (on mine, that’s
the option at the very bottom).

* Click Save.

* If you want to enable Chinese in titles, you can repeat the
procedure for the wp_posts.wp_title.  You might also want to enable it
in comments by repeating on wp_comments.comment_content and
wp_comments.comment_author.

That’s it! You can now post 汉字 in WordPress!

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Dwayne Myers
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