Title: unicode, cyrillic displayed problems
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# unicode, cyrillic displayed problems

 *  [luigig82](https://wordpress.org/support/users/luigig82/)
 * (@luigig82)
 * [14 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/unicode-cyrillic-displayed-problems/)
 * **I’ve got a problem in my 3languages site, when i write in russian ciryllic 
   the characters turns into question marks (????). **
 * I found online a potential solution that is:
 * [http://wordpress.org/support/topic/cyrillic-text-turns-into-in-blog-posts-and-comments?replies=4](http://wordpress.org/support/topic/cyrillic-text-turns-into-in-blog-posts-and-comments?replies=4)
 * Are you getting ???? errors instead of Cyrillic when typing Russian? This can
   be quite frustrating, but not too hard once you know the code to fix. Took me
   about half a day to figure out, so hopefully, this will save someone a lot of
   time. Make sure to save your original wp-config.php files in case the need arises
   to re-install it.
    If you are on a windows server you will need to change your
   wp-config.php file as follows. define(’DB_CHARSET’, ‘utf8′); to define(’DB_CHARSET’,‘
   windows-1251′); or define(’DB_CHARSET’, ‘windows1251′); If you are on a linux
   server, such as I, you will need to change your wp-config.php file as follows.
   define(’DB_CHARSET’, ‘utf8′); define(’DB_COLLATE’, ”); to //define(’DB_CHARSET’,‘
   utf8′); //define(’DB_COLLATE’, ”);
 * **I’m a linux host user so i tried the linux solution (and also the windows one
   after) but it’s not working.**
 * Was it the right solution or what should i do now?
    Thanks in advance

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 * Last activity: [14 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/unicode-cyrillic-displayed-problems/)
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