I created a DB in MySQL with latin collation and when I tried to save some Unicode content it go saved as “???” into the DB. Took me a while to figure out the issue. When such problem occures you need to change the collation to UTF-8 as shown in the image below. (navigate to […]
WordPress Database and Unicode
Early versions of WordPress create Databases using different encoding such as latin1_swedish_ci. As the result, we won’t be able to see Unicode text. We’ll see some kind of curly scripts in the screen. To overcome this problem, we can use a simple solution. That is open your wp-config.php file and do the following edits there. […]