Getting Hebrew to work on WordPress 2.2
Update February 20, 2008:
The Hebrew no longer works on this blog, even with the trick I described below. Ido Fishman left a comment with a link to this section of the Codex that describes a gut-wrenching, hair-whitening way to get different languages to work on one WordPress blog. Since I don’t need Hebrew here, I’m going to pass on that and leave things as they are. In the meantime, if anyone finds a less stressful way to get multiple languages to work on a WordPress blog, please let me know.
The Hebrew version of this post is directly below the English, so scroll down my Hebrew-speaking friends…
????? ?????? ????? ???? ?????? ??????, ?? ???? ???? ???? ?????? ?????…
In an earlier post I described a problem I was having with Hebrew on WordPress 2.2. I found that every time I clicked on Save or Publish on a Hebrew post or Page, all of the Hebrew letters turned into question marks. After trying a million different ways to fix it, I gave up and downgraded the blogs that needed Hebrew to version 2.1.3, and then everything worked fine.
Well, I found the solution! Liew Cheon Fong at LiewCF has nonchalantly posted a simple solution that works, as if it’s not the most brilliant thing ever! (Ok, I exaggerate, but still…)
Here are his directions:
- Open and edit “wp-config.php”
- Find:
define('DB_CHARSET', 'utf8');- Remove “utf8?, so it becomes:
define('DB_CHARSET', '');- Save and upload “wp-config.php”
- Done. Your WordPress blog should display characters correctly.
Liew has saved me a lot of hair-pulling! Thanks Liew!
Now the Hebrew:
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?? ??? ??? ?? ????? ???? ?????? ?? ????? ??? ????? ?? ?????, ???? ???????:
- ???? ?? ????? wp-config.php.
- ???? ?? ????? ??? ????:
define('DB_CHARSET', 'utf8')– ?? ???? ????? 8.- ???? ?? ?????? “utf-8″ ??? ??? ????
define('DB_CHARSET', '');- ????? ????? ??? ???? ??? ??? FTP.
- ???!
Category: Tips
yey, it works!
thanx =)
Glad I could help!
I’m not translate template yet but it’s a good thing to know.
BTW,
What plugin did you use fir the tags & the tag CLOUD in your blog?
Let me know if you can because i have tryed to put the tag cloud in my blog & it didn’t worked.
Thank You,
Pinto.
http://www.pintophotography.com/wp/
Meir – I used Jerome’s Simple Tagging and I wrote a whole tutorial about how to get it to work, which you can see here. If you follow the instructions, it should work for you too.
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Maybe it’s just me, but I still see ??? instead of hebrew on this post.
Ido – how ironic! The reason is that I recently had to reinstall this blog, and I actually forgot to implement this little trick here. I’m going to do it now, so hopefully by the time you see this comment, the ??? will be gone.
Ido – this trick isn’t working anymore! Now I don’t know what to do!
Although my new blog is completely in Hebrew and I’ve never tried to mix between English & Hebrew in my posts, except certain words or names, I think that you should follow this – http://codex.wordpress.org/Converting_Database_Character_Sets
Don’t forget the backup part – very important.
Ido – that is one scary way to get Hebrew to work on WordPress. I think a person needs to back up and pray like crazy before doing such a thing.
I think I’m going to live with the question marks for now since I just don’t have the stomach for that.
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