iso-8859-7 to utf-8

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  elkos · Member · Dec 13, 2006 at 2:52 am

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  How can i change the encoding of my base files (posts and comments) so when I change to utf-8 encoding my blog will remain readable???

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  nosysnoop · Member · Dec 16, 2006 at 1:47 am

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  Base files? I don’t know if we have access to those here at WordPress.com. Do you host your own blog yourself? If so, you should ask here at the WordPress.org forum because the software runs differently:

  http://wordpress.org/support/

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  elkos · Member · Dec 16, 2006 at 3:32 am

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  nope it’s wordpress.com hosted… all ideas are welcome

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  timethief · Member · Dec 16, 2006 at 3:45 am

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  I believe you should send a feedback to staff with a link back to this thread.

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  devblog · Member · Dec 16, 2006 at 4:58 am

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  Have you tried:

  Options -> Reading
  Syndication Feeds
  Encoding for pages and feeds

  By default, at least on my blog, the encoding type is set to UTF-8

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  elkos · Member · Dec 16, 2006 at 7:47 am

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  well when i imported my blog’s posts and comments from blogger i had to change to iso-8859-7 in order to have a readable blog, changing to utf-8 turns it unreadable… i have used the feedback to report the situatìon… thank you people

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  drmike · Member · Dec 16, 2006 at 7:14 pm

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  I think changing the encoding only works for future posts, not ones aready made.

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  elkos · Member · Dec 18, 2006 at 1:34 am

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  drmike i got that… i think something like the use the following plugin for wordpress.org blogs could help wordpress.com blogs but i am not sure if there are any security concerns…
  http://kimmo.suominen.com/sw/charsets/

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  drmike · Member · Dec 18, 2006 at 1:43 am

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  I would suggest sending in a feedback and suggest it and why you think it’s needed to staff but I would think that it would cause more issues than solve.