Problems with WordPress 2.2

Of course there are problems. I should have followed my own rule of not fixing things that aren’t broken.

Here are the problems:

After an upgrade, funny symbols appear all across the posts. Generally they appear where apostrophes are in words (see my post titled “Aizatto’s Related Posts Plugin“? for a beautiful example”), or where there was a space at the end of a sentence. This is a minor, but annoying problem.
Hebrew doesn’t work!! I need to be able to write Hebrew posts within an English installation of WordPress (as opposed to the Hebrew mod created by Ran Yaniv Hartstein). This worked until I upgraded. At first I thought that the problem might be my server, so I tested a site that is installed on the server with an older version of WordPress – it worked fine. I tested sites on a bunch of different servers, and all of the sites that were running 2.2 didn’t work. I can type in Hebrew, but if a save or publish a post or page, all of the Hebrew turns into question marks! I tried changing the encoding, but that also didn’t work.

Needless to say, this is driving me mad. If anyone has any advice, please please let me know!

Matt

Hi,

Check your MySQL charset and connection collation. I think it should be set to UTF-8 Unicode (utf8) to work properly. I had the same issue with accented characters when the database was set in ISO.
Miriam

Matt – I actually found the fix to this problem with foreign characters which involved making a slight modification to the wp-config.php file and removing “utf-8” from the line that defines DB_charset. Is this the same idea as what you are suggesting? You can see my write up about this fix here.
Matt

Actually I was more thinking about messing with the database structure (collations and encoding) but your fix is a lot more maintainable and much easier. Nice tip 🙂