Title: Unicode character conversion
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Unicode character conversion

 *  [Match](https://wordpress.org/support/users/match/)
 * (@match)
 * [20 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/unicode-character-conversion/)
 * Hi everyone,
 * I’m trying to figure out how exactly WordPress encodes Japanese text. It works
   fine (I enter text, submit it, and the entries display correctly) BUT I can’t
   figure out how it does it. I don’t know where exactly in the source to look. 
   In the database the Japanese text appears as a lot of umlauted a characters among
   other things. What exactly does WordPress do to get Japanese characters to work?
 * I’ve flagged this as support, I hope that was correct. Apologies if not.
 * Thank you,
 * Matthew

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 * [encoding](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/encoding/)
 * [japanese](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/japanese/)
 * [unicode](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/unicode/)

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 * Last reply from: [Match](https://wordpress.org/support/users/match/)
 * Last activity: [20 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/unicode-character-conversion/)
 * Status: not resolved

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