Showing posts with label Asian Language. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Asian Language. Show all posts

Wednesday, October 1, 2008

How to enable Chinese in wordpress

The best solution to the character encoding problem in WordPress is to convert the charset or database and collation to UTF-8 or Unicode. UTF-8 Database Converter can be used to overcome this problem.

Download UTF-8 Database Converter,
  1. Open the file `wp-config.php` set `DB_CHARSET` to `utf8` and leave `DB_COLLATE` with nothing. (Just for WordPress 2.2.x)
  2. Upload `UTF8_DB_Converter.php` to the `/wp-content/plugins/` directory.
  3. Activate the plugin through the 'Plugins' menu in WordPress.
  4. Go to the sub menu called 'UTF-8 Database Converter'.
  5. And just follow the instructions on the screen.

Saturday, September 6, 2008

Sogou Pinyin

Today Joojen from Nanjing introduced Sogou Pinyin - a popular Chinese character input method editor developed by Sogou, a Chinese search engine.

I have been using Microsoft default pinyin and recently has just switched to the Google Pinyin. However, Sogou Pinyin impress me much! The speed and precision is really excellent!

By the way, Sogou Pinyin can be downloaded for free from http://www.sogou.com/pinyin/.