Title: Language problems with comments
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Language problems with comments

 *  [zinnium](https://wordpress.org/support/users/zinnium/)
 * (@zinnium)
 * [14 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/language-problems-with-comments/)
 * I am having a weird issue my site where if arabic or thai is used inside the 
   comment and/or the description, it will revert to what looks like a crazy mess.
 * I have created a few temp posts with the same text inside of all fields and this
   only happens inside the comment and description boxes. If I open my database 
   and manually input the text into the fields it works 100%.
 * I know its a UTF-8 issue and I have gone through my SQL server to verify its 
   working 100% and it is. I did check all my plugins and here is no issues there.
   I am just not sure what could be causing this.

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 *  Thread Starter [zinnium](https://wordpress.org/support/users/zinnium/)
 * (@zinnium)
 * [14 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/language-problems-with-comments/#post-2429971)
 * I found the problem. My database was set to use general UTF-8. I just had to 
   change it to UniCode to fix it.
 * Strange how it only only effected comments and titles, but not anything else.
   I am thinking it was due to string lengths.
 *  Thread Starter [zinnium](https://wordpress.org/support/users/zinnium/)
 * (@zinnium)
 * [14 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/language-problems-with-comments/#post-2429972)
 * I should also not that I only changed it to unicode inside wp_posts, wp_terms
   and tax, and also the comments only.
 * don’t try to mess with it inside the meta field or you are asking for trouble.

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 * Last activity: [14 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/language-problems-with-comments/#post-2429972)
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