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Tag: unicode

Playing with the WordPress database

After initially solving my database character encoding problems by ignoring the specific strings in the wp-config.php file, I was finally forced to alter the characters in the database during a recent reshuffle. Whilst there are two automated solutions available via plugin, namely g30rg3x‘s UTF-8 Database Converter and the Modified UTF8 Sanitize Plugin, sadly neither worked [...]

WordPress 2.2 database character sets

For those upgrading their WordPress powered blogs to 2.2, just a word of warning regarding the new character encoding options available in the wp-config.php file. The standard file should have a section which reads: // ** MySQL settings ** // define(‘DB_NAME’, dbname// The name of the database define(‘DB_USER’, ‘dbuser’); // Your MySQL username define(‘DB_PASSWORD’, ‘dbpassword’); [...]