Title: adding post – failed with polish characters Last modified: August 30, 2016 --- # adding post – failed with polish characters * [pakos](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pakos/) * (@pakos) * [10 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-post-failed-with-polish-characters/) * Hi, i’ve tried today to add some post and everytime when i clicked publish or save i was getting blank page. No post was shown when i get back to dashboard. After few attempts i’ve noticed that everything works fine when i don’t use polish characters eg ó ł ź ć. * Looking at db charset for wordpress i see it uses latin2_general_ci but i have no idea if that’s ok, how it was before (gotta check some backups) and if thats a cause of problems. * Any ideas what’s going on because it’s hard to write with my language without those characters 😉 Viewing 6 replies - 1 through 6 (of 6 total) * Moderator [Jan Dembowski](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jdembowski/) * (@jdembowski) * Forum Moderator and Brute Squad * [10 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-post-failed-with-polish-characters/#post-6380093) * > i’ve tried today to add some post and everytime when i clicked publish or save > i was getting blank page. * That’s not good. Have you tried the usual troubleshooting steps? * * Deactivate all of your plugins. * Switch to the Twenty Fifteen theme. * Clear your browser’s cache and cookies. * Log in again and try to save a post with Polish characters in it. * These are only temporary steps and once you’ve tested you can put it all back the way it was. * If it works when you have no plugins activated and the default Twenty Fifteen theme then you may have a conflict. * Thread Starter [pakos](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pakos/) * (@pakos) * [10 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-post-failed-with-polish-characters/#post-6380173) * Yes, sorry but forgot to mention. * Tried all of them, even tried to upgrade it once again since latest one was done automatically bu no effect, still same blank page. * Unfortunately my hosting provider doesn’t allow me to edit php config myself so i’m not able to enable showing logs, that could give some idea maybe. * Is there other way to see whats wrong from wordpress level? * Moderator [Jan Dembowski](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jdembowski/) * (@jdembowski) * Forum Moderator and Brute Squad * [10 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-post-failed-with-polish-characters/#post-6380212) * > Tried all of them, even tried to upgrade it once again since latest one was > done automatically bu no effect, still same blank page. * I think the best option would be to get the error_log for your site from your hosting provider. When you get a blank page like that it means that your web server’s PHP is tossing 500 errors. That log file can help you identify why that is. * Thread Starter [pakos](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pakos/) * (@pakos) * [10 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-post-failed-with-polish-characters/#post-6380215) * First i found how to enable debug in wp itself, (sorry for asking before searching;)). There’s a database error: * ``` WordPress database error: [Something is wrong in your syntax obok ') AS x_post_content' w linii 1] SELECT CONVERT( LEFT( CONVERT( 'Å‚' USING binary ), 4294967295 ) USING ) AS x_post_content WordPress database error: [Something is wrong in your syntax obok ') AS x_post_content' w linii 1] SELECT CONVERT( LEFT( CONVERT( 'Å‚' USING binary ), 4294967295 ) USING ) AS x_post_content Catchable fatal error: Object of class WP_Error could not be converted to string in /home/pakos/public_html/blog/wp-includes/formatting.php on line 1608 ``` * Thread Starter [pakos](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pakos/) * (@pakos) * [10 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-post-failed-with-polish-characters/#post-6380307) * any ideas or reinstallation is my last option? * Thread Starter [pakos](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pakos/) * (@pakos) * [10 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-post-failed-with-polish-characters/#post-6380308) * ok somehow i managed to fix it myself, i did fresh test install and saw that all db elements have charset set to utf8mb4_unicode_ci so i changed it for post_title and post_content and i can use polish characters now. * `ALTER TABLE`wp_posts`CHANGE`post_titlepost_title` TEXT CHARACTER SET utf8mb4 COLLATE utf8mb4_unicode_ci NOT NULL ; ALTER TABLE `wp_posts` CHANGE `post_content`` post_content` TEXT CHARACTER SET utf8mb4 COLLATE utf8mb4_unicode_ci NOT NULL ;` * now the question is, all other tables still have: latin2_general_ci should i change them aswell? and what if there’s an error like for wp_commentmeta – meta_key# 1071 – defined key is too long Viewing 6 replies - 1 through 6 (of 6 total) The topic ‘adding post – failed with polish characters’ is closed to new replies. * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/) * 6 replies * 2 participants * Last reply from: [pakos](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pakos/) * Last activity: [10 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-post-failed-with-polish-characters/#post-6380308) * Status: not resolved ## Topics ### Topics with no replies ### Non-support topics ### Resolved topics ### Unresolved topics ### All topics