Hi guys, i want to change the SearchForm.php file in my wordpress themes to hebrew. i mean i want to see 'חפש' (hebrew text) instead of 'search for '.
when i change it i see gebrish.
why ??
thanks.
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A:
You need to make sure that the content-type of the page is the correct one - normally UTF-8 would work for all languages.
You can use a meta tag within the head element:
<META http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
For Hebrew it is iso-8859-8.
<META http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-8">
This is normally already setup within the template and you can look at your settings to see if it is correct - In Settings -> Reading, under "Encoding for pages and feeds".
You also need to be sure that the page is saved as UTF-8 and not ascii - check your text editor settings.
Oded
2010-08-02 20:34:54
ok, i check that and is on UTF-8what is the name of the file, i need to put the meta tag ?thanks.
ROI
2010-08-02 20:53:51
@ROI - if it is UTF-8, check in the source (view source in browser) that it is correctly there. Then check that the file that you updated is also saved in UTF-8.
Oded
2010-08-02 20:56:47
i check it, everything is ok with the encode I try to put the meta line belongs to the subject in header.phpbut i still see gebrish.
ROI
2010-08-02 21:04:38
@ROI - what do you see when you look at the page source in the browser? Are you sure the browser is using the correct encoding (in FF it is under View -> Character Encoding)?
Oded
2010-08-02 21:11:36
link to my website with the problem and you cn to enter to view soucre and see that the encoding is on utf-8link:www.104u.co.il/blog2
ROI
2010-08-02 21:30:02
@ROI - I am unable to access that site at all. Can you paste the relevant bits in your question?
Oded
2010-08-03 07:31:00