Hebrew Installation, UTF-8 and Sufficient Permission in WordPress

I just published a Hebrew website with a Hebrew installation of WordPress. I first built the site locally, and then moved the database over to the client’s site. When I tried to log in, I got this beauty of an error “You do not have sufficient permissions to access this page” in Hebrew, of course.

The advice I found in the WP Support Forums were mostly related to WP Database Prefixes. I had changed the prefixes, so I thought this was the problem.

But, after numerous exports, imports, and hair pulling, I started reviewing everything I had done during the database transfer. And, I remembered a very tiny detail. The UTF-8 tag in the wp-config.php file.

Before moving the database over, I modified the wp-config file and removed the UTF-8 tag. BIG MISTAKE. You only need to remove the UTF-8 code to get Hebrew to work on an English installation of WordPress. Since this time it was a Hebrew installation, I didn’t need to remove the UTF-8 tag. And, like magic, once I put the tag back in, I had sufficient permission to enter the site and be on my jolly way. Thank Goodness!

yosh

Why do you need to remove the UTF-8 tag for Hebrew on English-Wordpress? I write Hebrew in English installations and fix directions with CSS. It works fine.
- Rebecca
  
  Yosh, maybe you’ve had better luck than me. Every time I try to add Hebrew to an English installation, I always get question marks.
yosh

Rebecca, what fonts do you use for Hebrew? You should use unicode fonts that have Hebrew characters (e.g.: Arial, Tahoma, etc. )
Aharon Varady

I noticed that the default in the configs.php is UTF8 — it should be UTF-8. That little dash is non-trivial.

Hebrew Installation, UTF-8 and Sufficient Permission in WordPress

Author: Rebecca Markowitz

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