Title: Unicode Characters
Last modified: October 31, 2017

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# Unicode Characters

 *  [Ruzgar Dogu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ruzgar-dogu/)
 * (@ruzgar-dogu)
 * [8 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/unicode-characters-5/)
 * Hi,
 * Thank you for this great plugin. I have one minor problem with the Turkish characters.
   When user enters a Turkish character like “ğ”(g with a hat) It shows posts with
   the letter “g”, which they are alike but not identical. Or “ö” (letter o with
   two dots) and “o” are different in Turkish Language, but both of them give the
   same results.
 * How can i overcome this issue. Thank you in advance.

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 *  Plugin Author [wpdreams](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpdreams/)
 * (@wpdreams)
 * [8 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/unicode-characters-5/#post-9649214)
 * Hi,
 * Thank you for your kind words!
 * Unfortunately this is more of a database table collation problem. As far as I
   know WordPress tries to use the _utf8mb4\_unicode\_ci_ collation, which is a 
   multibyte, unicode case insensitive, accent insensitive storage. Accent insensitive
   means, that search type queries will match similar characters as you mentioned
   above.
 * I believe it might be possible to change this collation to _utf8mb4\_turkish\
   _ci_ which might result in better accent sensitivity. However I would only recommend
   this if you know how to do that, and know how to back-up the database as well.

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 * Last activity: [8 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/unicode-characters-5/#post-9649214)
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