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WordPress Database and Unicode
Early versions of WordPress create Databases using different encoding such as latin1_swedish_ci. As the result, we won’t be able to see Unicode text. We’ll see some kind of curly scripts in the screen. To overcome this problem, we can use a simple solution. That is open your wp-config.php file and do the following edits there.
define(’DB_CHARSET’, ‘utf8′);
define(’DB_COLLATE’, ”);
change it as
//define(’DB_CHARSET’, ‘utf8′);
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