November 3, 2008
Chinese Characters in Word Press
My significant other half wants to try out wordpress and she wanted to do so in Chinese. After searching online on how to do so, these are the steps which I am summarizing here.
The installation is done manually, you will need an FTP program in order to carry out the steps below.
* Download the .mo language file for the Chinese language. The more file is zh_CH.mo. The latest .mo file for WordPress 2.6.2 can be found at http://code.google.com/p/wpcn/downloads/list. It is the second file in the list at the time of writing. The file name is WordPress MU 2.6.2
* Open your wp-config.php file in a text editor and search for:
define (’WPLANG’, ‘’);
* Edit this line according to the .mo file you’ve just downloaded and you must add:
define (’WPLANG’, ‘zh_CH’);
* Save the file.
* On your site server, create a new folder in your /wp-content directory called /languages.
* Upload the .mo file to the languages folder you just created.
* Upload the modified wp-config.php file into the WordPress root directory.
* Open your browser and go to your WordPress site. It should now display in the newly-installed language.
By now when if you are at the dash board, all the menus and wordings will be in Chinese. However there is still one more steps to do in order that your posting in Chinese can be properly display in the blog. This step requires to change the language setting in the wordpress database. In the data base, “latin1_swedish_ci” is the default. You’ll need to change that to “utf8_unicode_ci” for all the tables where you plan to include Chinese characters in. For this steps I came across this site which helps me a lot. This is the site and ths said post http://boringest.blogasian.com/2008/10/25/how-to-show-chinese-characters-in-wordpress/
With the second step done, more or less posting and reading the blog in Chinese is done. By the way here is my wife’s blog which I am talking about Sisters-Corner.com/
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