Title: Problem with UTF8
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Problem with UTF8

 *  [Spaan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/spaan/)
 * (@spaan)
 * [15 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-with-utf8/)
 * Help what do I do after this error code. I get this right away when I press install!
 * WordPress database error: [Unknown character set: ‘utf8_general_ci’]
    CREATE 
   TABLE wp_terms ( term_id bigint(20) unsigned NOT NULL auto_increment, name varchar(
   200) NOT NULL default ”, slug varchar(200) NOT NULL default ”, term_group bigint(
   10) NOT NULL default 0, PRIMARY KEY (term_id), UNIQUE KEY slug (slug), KEY name(
   name) ) DEFAULT CHARACTER SET utf8_general_ci
 * WordPress database error: [Unknown character set: ‘utf8_general_ci’]
    CREATE 
   TABLE wp_term_taxonomy ( term_taxonomy_id bigint(20) unsigned NOT NULL auto_increment,
   term_id bigint(20) unsigned NOT NULL default 0, taxonomy varchar(32) NOT NULL
   default ”, description longtext NOT NULL, parent bigint(20) unsigned NOT NULL
   default 0, count bigint(20) NOT NULL default 0, PRIMARY KEY (term_taxonomy_id),
   UNIQUE KEY term_id_taxonomy (term_id,taxonomy), KEY taxonomy (taxonomy) ) DEFAULT
   CHARACTER SET utf8_general_ci
 * WordPress database error: [Unknown character set: ‘utf8_general_ci’]
    CREATE 
   TABLE wp_term_relationships ( object_id bigint(20) unsigned NOT NULL default 
   0, term_taxonomy_id bigint(20) unsigned NOT NULL default 0, term_order int(11)
   NOT NULL default 0, PRIMARY KEY (object_id,term_taxonomy_id), KEY term_taxonomy_id(
   term_taxonomy_id) ) DEFAULT CHARACTER SET utf8_general_ci
 * WordPress database error: [Unknown character set: ‘utf8_general_ci’]
    CREATE 
   TABLE wp_commentmeta ( meta_id bigint(20) unsigned NOT NULL auto_increment, comment_id
   bigint(20) unsigned NOT NULL default ‘0’, meta_key varchar(255) default NULL,
   meta_value longtext, PRIMARY KEY (meta_id), KEY comment_id (comment_id), KEY 
   meta_key (meta_key) ) DEFAULT CHARACTER SET utf8_general_ci
 * WordPress database error: [Unknown character set: ‘utf8_general_ci’]
    CREATE 
   TABLE wp_comments ( comment_ID bigint(20) unsigned NOT NULL auto_increment, comment_post_ID
   bigint(20) unsigned NOT NULL default ‘0’, comment_author tinytext NOT NULL, comment_author_email
   varchar(100) NOT NULL default ”, comment_author_url varchar(200) NOT NULL default”,
   comment_author_IP varchar(100) NOT NULL default ”, comment_date datetime NOT 
   NULL default ‘0000-00-00 00:00:00’, comment_date_gmt datetime NOT NULL default‘
   0000-00-00 00:00:00’, comment_content text NOT NULL, comment_karma int(11) NOT
   NULL default ‘0’, co

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 *  Moderator [Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ipstenu/)
 * (@ipstenu)
 * 🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist
 * [15 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-with-utf8/#post-1636956)
 * Looks like you have a bad setting in your wp-config file.
 * See [http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/13103](http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/13103)

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## Tags

 * [character set](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/character-set/)
 * [installation](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/installation/)
 * [utf8](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/utf8/)

 * In: [Installing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/installation/)
 * 1 reply
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 * Last reply from: [Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ipstenu/)
 * Last activity: [15 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-with-utf8/#post-1636956)
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