Title: Double Byte Posting Problems
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Double Byte Posting Problems

 *  [SpOiLeR](https://wordpress.org/support/users/spoiler/)
 * (@spoiler)
 * [22 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/double-byte-posting-problems/)
 * Hi, I have the most recent version of WordPress, and I’m having a problem with
   posting japanese characters.
    Apparently whenever i make a “double-byte” post,
   the characters always end up turning into ??????????? I’ve already have HTML 
   TRANS on off and i have the character settings of my page on default wordpress
   setting. please help. thanks, frank.

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 *  [alexkingorg](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alexkingorg/)
 * (@alexkingorg)
 * [22 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/double-byte-posting-problems/#post-42779)
 * I think there needs to be a multi-byte conversion before the data is store in
   the database and after it is retrieved. PHP has built in functions for this but
   it isn’t in place in WordPress yet.
 *  [michelv](https://wordpress.org/support/users/michelv/)
 * (@michelv)
 * [22 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/double-byte-posting-problems/#post-42784)
 * “Default WordPress setting” is ISO-8859-1, which would never work with double
   bytes encoding.
    Add $admin_charset=’UTF-8′; in wp-config.php, change your template’s
   charset to UTF-8, and it should be fine. (Next release has a charset option, 
   so it will be easier.)
 *  Thread Starter [SpOiLeR](https://wordpress.org/support/users/spoiler/)
 * (@spoiler)
 * [22 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/double-byte-posting-problems/#post-42842)
 * michel: I tried your method but it still doesn’t work. I tried changing the post
   in PHPMYADMIN but apparently it also gives the same results (the text becomes
   question marks). I guess there has to be a conversion to be stored in the database.
   
   I’ll wait for the next release. hopefully this feature will be added. thanks 
   for the replies!

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 * Last activity: [22 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/double-byte-posting-problems/#post-42842)
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