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Please either write in English or encode your characters

Lately, there has been comments that are quite problematic. WordPress, for some reason, won’t encode non-Latin characters - meaning, if you are writing in, for example, Japanese, then WordPress won’t process that text and simply return a bunch of question marks. This is because there is something called “character encoding.” Simply, this encoding allows computers to display text other than numbers. WordPress will only handle Latin characters (it’s best to assume that it will handle anything in English language). I won’t explain too much of it, but if you are typing in something other than English, then I suggest you either translate your post into English (Google Translator is a good one) or you can encode your post.

Encoding your post will allow you to post in your native language, but it requires more work (I prefer that you just translate your post into English). But, if you must, here’s how to encode: Simply click this link and enter your text into the small text box (the top one, not the bottom one). Click the “Convert to Unicode” and you will see a bunch of numbers with ampersands (&) and the number sign (#). Copy and paste whatever is in that box into your comment. For example, if I wanted to write the vowels a, i, u, e, o in Japanese Hiragana, I would do this:

Yes, “post” is the wrong word. Forgive my incompetence. Another point is that I had to encode the title 「求聞持の能力」でＭａｂｉｎｏｇｉついている弾く or else the title would be a bunch of question marks (Even the “Mabinogi” bit as well, since those are the Japanese version of the English letters).

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