I am sure there are many people setting up their blog using English as 1st language. However, sometimes you might want to write in Chinese as well. The wordpress default will give you stupid question marks after clicking the save or publish button.
I found that there is a way you can configure the blog for using both english & chinese. Here’s the step by step guide that I went through.
How to Setup Wordpress for Chinese Language
1. Open phpMyAdmin in CPanel
In order to type chinese on your blog, you will need to change some settings inside the SQL database. Firstly, you will need to login to your CPanel, then open phpMyAdmin as followed:
phpMyAdmin
2. Select Database & Table of Your Blog
After launching the phpMyAdmin screen, you will need to select the database of your blog on the pull down menu. Once you have selected the database, you will be able to see all the existing tables of the database showing right below the pull down menu.
How to Select Database Table in phpMyAdmin
3. Set Collation to utf8_unicode_ci
Click on the database table, you will see the table structure appearing on the right hand side of the screen. In order to store chinese in the database, you need to change the collation setting from latin1_swedish_ci to utf8_unicode_ci.
To change the collation setting, click on the pencil button and you will be a pop up window appearing. Scroll on the pull down menu to select utf8_unicode_ci and save the setting.
You need to go through this steps for all the fields that has existing setting of latin1_swedish_ci. You also need to repeat this step for all tables in the database as well.
Set utf8_unicode in SQL Database
You are Done… Good Luck to You!
After completing the above mentioned steps, you should be able to type and store chinese text (??? like I do. Though I have never tested this on other asian language, but I suppose it should work as well. Maybe you can share with me if you do have some success on that. All the best to you!
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KP,
Where to find the typepad in wordpress so that the Chinese language can be typed directly into my blog posting? Do you mean if you type the blog in english and then post it in Chinese using your PHP method?
Hi CJ, firstly, you need to set up your blog to use “utf8″ encoding, following the steps I shared above.
After which, you can simply use your OS chinese input to enter the chinese character and save it in wordpress. It should work