If you’re a japanese writer or blogger with japanese readers using wordpress then using your national or local l language is always beneficial. This will not only help to gain some local readers to your blog but you’ll also able to show japanese sentences instead of romaji. If you’re using wordpress then there are many ways to show the japanese characters on your wordpress blog. In this post you’ll find some tricks to show japanese characters on your blog.
Method 1 :
- Log into your wordpress blog. (It can be wordpress.com or your own hosted blog).
- Go to Settings > Reading Page.
- You’ll find option for ‘Encoding for pages and feeds’ with ‘UTF-8′ in the text-field.
- Remove the ‘UTF-8′ from the text-field and save the settings.
- Now publish the posts with japanese characters in it. You’ll find that posts now showing the characters without any trouble at all.
Method 2 :
In this method you need to edit the wordpress core files. If you have no idea about where to edit the file or how to handle the file manager on hosting then it’s better for you to choose method 1. You can also use method 1 in case if you are using wordpress.com account where you can’t edit core files.
1. You need to find the ‘config.php’ file and edit the following:
define('DB_CHARSET', 'utf8');
2. Above code should be commented or removed from the line.
3. On the safer side just remove the ‘UTF-8′ reference from the line.
This solution is for those who are using their own hosted blog or has access to the config.php file. You can use either method to sort out this problem and you’ll be able to show any regional language characters on your screen after this quick fix.
