Ticket #4219 (closed defect (bug): fixed)

Opened 5 years ago

Last modified 4 years ago

"character_set_client" should be set to UTF-8 by default

Reported by: foolswisdom Owned by: anonymous
Priority: normal Milestone: 2.5
Component: General Version: 2.2
Severity: normal Keywords:
Cc:

Description

System variable "character_set_client" is set to "latin1" by default, but the characters wordpress is writing into database are not in latin1, but in UTF-8. This results in that the UTF-8 characters are considers as latin1, and are converted to UTF-8 again.

Change History

comment:1   rob1n — 5 years ago

  • Component changed from Administration to General

comment:2   ryan — 5 years ago

2.2 sets this for new installs when it does SET NAMES. Nothing is done for existing installs, however. Setting this to whatever the user selects in blog_charset is difficult because blog_charset is stored in the DB. We have to connect to the DB to get the charset.

comment:3   ryan — 5 years ago

  • Version changed from 2.2 to 2.3

comment:4   rob1n — 5 years ago

  • Version changed from 2.3 to 2.2
  • Milestone changed from 2.2 to 2.3

comment:5   ryan — 4 years ago

  • Status changed from new to closed
  • Resolution set to fixed

DB_CHARSET can be set in wp-config.php. Calling that good enough.

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