Title: problem with character set encoding
Last modified: September 1, 2016

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# problem with character set encoding

 *  Resolved [maijx](https://wordpress.org/support/users/maijx/)
 * (@maijx)
 * [9 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-with-character-set-encoding/)
 * Hi
    Thank you for this great plugin. There’s a big problem with multi-rating 
   and it’s the character set encoding of it’s tables that are not utf-8. This is
   a very big problem for non Latin websites like Persian or Arabic languages. After
   each update or install i should run this sql command “alter table xx_mr_rating_item
   change description description LONGTEXT CHARACTER SET utf8;”. can you please 
   fix this problem once and forever so that we don’t need to change database tables
   manually? thank you in advance
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/multi-rating/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/multi-rating/)

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 *  Plugin Author [dpowney](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dpowney/)
 * (@dpowney)
 * [9 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-with-character-set-encoding/#post-7471876)
 * Hi,
 * I’ve found Multi Rating plugin does not currently use the default WordPress charset
   collate when creating or updating the database tables (global $charset_collate
   variable). A fix will be available in the next release. Thanks for pointing this
   out to me.
 * Daniel
 *  Thread Starter [maijx](https://wordpress.org/support/users/maijx/)
 * (@maijx)
 * [9 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-with-character-set-encoding/#post-7471885)
 * Thank you very much
 *  Plugin Author [dpowney](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dpowney/)
 * (@dpowney)
 * [9 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-with-character-set-encoding/#post-7471986)
 * v4.2 which has just been released has a fix for this. Thanks, Daniel

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 * Last reply from: [dpowney](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dpowney/)
 * Last activity: [9 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-with-character-set-encoding/#post-7471986)
 * Status: resolved