Title: Problems with foreign characters
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Problems with foreign characters

 *  Resolved [marcwitteveen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/marcwitteveen/)
 * (@marcwitteveen)
 * [13 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problems-with-foreign-characters/)
 * When I create a new category or enter a new blog post and I use foreign characters
   e.g. ŠĐČĆŽß, etc. they are not stored with I save the new category, post or page.
 * I have checked the database, the table, connection, fields are all UTF8. The 
   template front as well as backend are UTF8. The module mbstring.so is installed
   on the server.
 * I checked the log files but nothing is there, except for some missing image, 
   which is much less of a problem.
 * As suggested on some forums I’ve also commented out with no success:
    /** Database
   Charset to use in creating database tables. */ // define(‘DB_CHARSET’, ‘utf8’);/**
   The Database Collate type. Don’t change this if in doubt. */ // define(‘DB_COLLATE’,”);
 * Anyone has any clue what it could be and where to look to resolve this issue?

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 *  [tomontoast](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tomontoast/)
 * (@tomontoast)
 * [13 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problems-with-foreign-characters/#post-3288108)
 * Could you post a link to your site?
 *  Thread Starter [marcwitteveen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/marcwitteveen/)
 * (@marcwitteveen)
 * [13 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problems-with-foreign-characters/#post-3288109)
 * Here is the link to the website: [http://telex.si/~kovanec/ ](http://telex.si/~kovanec/)
 * The site is setup in a test environment on the production server.
 *  Thread Starter [marcwitteveen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/marcwitteveen/)
 * (@marcwitteveen)
 * [13 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problems-with-foreign-characters/#post-3288110)
 * The data you see is imported from a database where the database had wrong encoding
   settings. This is easy to fix once the initial problem is solved of entering 
   data.
 *  [tomontoast](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tomontoast/)
 * (@tomontoast)
 * [13 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problems-with-foreign-characters/#post-3288118)
 * Can’t see any problems. Try deactivating all plugins and try again. Beyond that
   I don’t know what to suggest…
 *  Thread Starter [marcwitteveen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/marcwitteveen/)
 * (@marcwitteveen)
 * [13 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problems-with-foreign-characters/#post-3288121)
 * No plugins where enabled… I also switched theme to the basic one. It makes no
   difference.
 * When I create a category, with as name: ABCDE and then rename it to ŠĐČĆŽ I get
   an error message: A name is required for this term.
 *  Thread Starter [marcwitteveen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/marcwitteveen/)
 * (@marcwitteveen)
 * [13 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problems-with-foreign-characters/#post-3288127)
 * I did a new clean installation of WordPress in a subfolder and it has the same
   issue.
 *  Thread Starter [marcwitteveen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/marcwitteveen/)
 * (@marcwitteveen)
 * [13 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problems-with-foreign-characters/#post-3288153)
 * Solved. Within PHP.INI you have some settings that say what encoding to use. 
   Seems that by default (not 100% sure) they are set to Japanese. So what you need
   to do is change them (where you can to) UTF-8 or pass.

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 * Last reply from: [marcwitteveen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/marcwitteveen/)
 * Last activity: [13 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problems-with-foreign-characters/#post-3288153)
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