Title: import-mt.php and unicode?
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# import-mt.php and unicode?

 *  Resolved [nearlythere](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nearlythere/)
 * (@nearlythere)
 * [20 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/import-mtphp-and-unicode/)
 * yep, i did my searches. i promise i would not start a thrad unless i was absolutely
   desperate! and i am!
 * i’m merging two blogs, and decided on using the MTexport plugin, and the import-
   mt.php files to get around any nasty ‘database massaging’.
 * the export plugin works fine- and spits out all my posts. i also did an import
   into another WP blog OK. … BUT it mangled all my japanese to ?????? marks. i 
   assume this is because i saved as plain text. (i was able to see the japanese
   text fine in the exported info).
 * so i tried another export, and saved the new txt file as Unicode. and tried it
   on yet another blog. no joy!
 * the import-mt.php does not seem to recognize the posts. it does not offer me 
   to rename the author.
 * can it not read a Unicode file?
 * or is there something i am overlooking?

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 *  Thread Starter [nearlythere](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nearlythere/)
 * (@nearlythere)
 * [20 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/import-mtphp-and-unicode/#post-268236)
 * duh, i should have saved it as UTF-8, and all is fine.
 * resolved!
 *  [aaron_law](https://wordpress.org/support/users/aaron_law/)
 * (@aaron_law)
 * [20 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/import-mtphp-and-unicode/#post-268483)
 * The text file should be imported should be saved in UTF-8.

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## Tags

 * [Import](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/import/)
 * [japanese](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/japanese/)
 * [Merge](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/merge/)
 * [unicode](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/unicode/)

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 * Last reply from: [aaron_law](https://wordpress.org/support/users/aaron_law/)
 * Last activity: [20 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/import-mtphp-and-unicode/#post-268483)
 * Status: resolved

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