I am trying to make a blog that has both arabic and english as primary languages. I’m using unicode (UTF-8) as my character encoding but when I paste a chunk of arabic text into the editor, it comes out as all “?”. It shows up fine in the editor when I first paste it, but then after clicking update, it changes all the arabic text to junk. What can I do to keep the arabic text displaying correctly?
How do I get both arabic and english text to show in a wordpress blog post?
Looks like a database charset problem. Here are a few things you can try:
Easiest
Check in Settings > Reading that you’ve got encoding set to UTF-8.
Easy
Open up your wp-config.php and find this line:
Change it to:
PITA
Convert your database charset to UTF-8, as explained in this article.