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I'm having font problems, or maybe character encoding on wordpress.

I am building a Thai website, most of the articles are in the correct language and there is no problem.

But there are a number of articles posted when posting errors in the article letters.

Such as:

https://prnt.sc/vswh8j or https://prnt.sc/vswi15

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As in the picture I have given, some of the first characters can be Thai, but the following characters are like: "ี่๠€ ภ£ ๠‡ วà¸" and I don't translate get it in any language.

I don't think my source code supports Thai or something like that. I have tried researching on this problem a lot and tried many ways but to no avail.

Hope you can guide me to fix it. Thank you very much

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  • Do the characters display ok in the backend/post editor after saving and reopening the editor? Or is this happening both back and frontend? If you copy the text into a WordProcessor do you get the broken characters or the original? What is the character encoding setting on your database tables? And are you using a 3rd party font provider such as google fonts? Edit your question to include these details, even if the answer is I don't know
    – Tom J Nowell ♦
    Nov 30, 2020 at 15:23

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It has many cases:

  1. check the character encoding in wp-config.php.

    define('DB_CHARSET', 'utf8');
define('DB_COLLATE', '');

  2. check database character encoding

  3. check if the font you use supporting Thai letters

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  • changing the character encoding in wp-config.php won't change the encoding of the database. It also needs to be multibyte utf8 or various language characters get truncated, e.g. emoji or japanese
    – Tom J Nowell ♦
    Nov 30, 2020 at 15:14
  • You're right, i meant checking it with database not changing it. but in Arabic language sometimes it works by changing it with same database character encoding.
    – Mohamed Mostafa
    Nov 30, 2020 at 16:05
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I was having the same issue in my thai font website. Took one whole day to find out that I haven't added the meta charset="UTF-8" in the head section.

Adding UTF-8 solved the issue. Hope you might get some idea on how to solve it on wordpress.

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