I am managing a site for a popular arts publication in Dubai. We have recently launched the new wordpress custom site. I was making some changes this morning and by mistake changed the UTF unicode to 16 from 8. I have read a number of similar posts of people doing the same thing. Changing the Unicode encoding on my browser does not work however.

Here is the url: http://www.brownbook.me

Can someone from Support please help me with the issue, or if any bloggers know other solutions of gaining access to the options page to change it back.

We need to get the site back up asap.

Regards

It was your post about the framing that "brought my ears up", thank you :)

I tested entering quierohacerfotos.wordpress.com in Facebook and it looked beautiful! Then tested again with http://www.quierohacerfotos.com and then it´s when the strange characters showed up again.

I´m doing some tests but the solution has been found, thanks again, I will definitely get more deeply into learning about frames.

http://flippintestblog.files.wordpress.com/2011/06/utf8.png

The problem is with your browser. Go into the preferences and find the character encoding and set it to UTF-8.

http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.quierohacerfotos.com%2F&charset=%28detect+automatically%29&doctype=Inline&group=0

Seriously though, I strongly suggest mapping the domain name to the blog here rather than the frame.

Many thanks, unfortunately it´s not only Facebook, it happens in any website really, even in my own WordPress blog!

If you open http://quierohacerfotos.wordpress.com, check the title at the top of browser (on the browser tab title), it reads:

Talleres pr?cticos de fotograf?a

I will contact the staff direct, thanks!

Also, since your blog appears to be the only thing on your website, putting it into a frame is not the best way to do things. It is better to map that domain name to the blog here. I highly discourage using frames as they can really mess things up.

http://en.support.wordpress.com/domain-mapping/map-existing-domain/

<meta charset="UTF-8" />

Contact staff directly on this. Since WordPress is on UTF-8, then this might be a facebook issue. The contact form is currently closed, but will be back up and running at 8AM UTC on Monday morning, which is about 8 hours from now by my calculation.

http://en.support.wordpress.com/contact/

When I enter the link to my WordPress.com blog in Facebook (or any other website) all Spanish accents are interpreted as question marks, it looks like this:

Talleres pr?cticos de fotograf?a
http://www.quierohacerfotos.com
fotograf?a, profesional, Espa?a, talleres, pr?cticos, cursos

You can see it here: http://www.facebook.com/quierohacerfotos

According to the different available help this can be solved either changing the "DB_CHARSET" line of code in one of the php files (not possible as I can´t access any php or html files in WordPress.com)

or going to Options > Reading

and selecting UTF-8 from the drop down menu.

Where is this option? The most similar one I have found is under Settings > Reading but there is no single drop down menu that allows you to choose UTF-8 there, where is it?

Also, where can I change the title and the keywords embedded in html? (the two text lines shown when I enter my page link, see above). It´s not the title that appears under Settings > General as I´ve already changed that from "Talleres prácticos de fotografía" to "Aprende a manejar tu camara" (you can see it if you open my website, http://www.quierohacerfotos.com, the title at the browser still says "T?alleres pr?cticos de fotograf?a", I can´t find the fields where I introduced both the title and the keywords to describe my website, I´m going bananas! (if I can´t change the strange characters at least temporaly I can delete them and leave only the web address when refering to my website).

Many thanks,

Mj

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I am starting a blog that will be in both English and Japanese. The Japanese characters are so far displaying as question marks. I read another support thread about changing the encoding to UTF-8. I checked, and mine was already set to UTF-8. I also checked the config file, and that was set as UTF-8 too.

Any help?

http://kureaa.com/?page_id=2

(I shuold think definitely think before bothering support...)

Any ideas how to solve that problem?

The feeds I in the widget are:
http://www.schoenen-dunk.de/news.rss
http://waskommtnachdirk.de/feed/

I am hoping somebody can help me with this issue. My WordPress webpage http://www.fairbar.dk is being shut down by the domain supplier. They did it last week as well and I thought I solved it by erasing and blocking for spam comments. But now they shut it down again because of this error message:
Filling server's error log with: WordPress-databasefejl Unknown character set: 'utf-8' for foresp\xc3\xb8rgslen SET NAMES 'utf-8' fra require, require_once, require_once, require_once, require_wp_db, require_once

"databasefejl" is Danish and means "Database error". I need to fix this as soon as possible and hope somebody can help. There might be a solution somewhere else in the forum and I have al ready searched but without luck so far - so if you know where it is I would appreciate a link.

Thank you from Gorm

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katm member: does it work in anything else? is it only google reader?

thank you.

the englsih works obviously, but the korean language characters come out as weird characters in my RSS feed.

they work fine on the wordpress site (http://artofmulata.wordpress.com/2008/04/29/some-music/) in the tags area, but they sure don't in the feed.

any idea what i can do about that? am i not invoking some rule in the settings properly?

thanks for any help,
pol rosenthal

http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic.php?id=3700&replies=1

1) I am using the encoding UTF-8. All characters are working fine in the content, but in the sidebar and the footer characters like éñëê etc... appear as sqaures... What do I have to do? I've heard something about that I have to save the sidebar and the footer as UTF-8???

2) I'm using the contact-form by Douglas Karr, but when I try to deactivate the plugin, the whole site is disappearing... When I activate it again, the site appears... That is the first problem. The second is that you can't click in the text-areas and write our name etc.. when the contact-form is in a area beside the sidebar, but below works ok. And when I try to send it says "thanks for the comments!", but when I read it the text does not appear..... What's happening!!?

Thank you for help!!