How to Enable Arabic Letters in WordPress

Notes: It applies for Self-hosted WordPress only. It should work with other specific characters as well such as Hebrew, Persian (Farsi), Urdu, etc

I. Enable writing Arabic in Posting:

Find the table wp_post or wordpress_post in your PhpMyAdmin Sql.
Change the field database collation from latin1_general_ci into utf8_general_ci
Done

II. Enable typing Arabic in Comment:

Find the table wp_comment in your PhpMyAdmin Sql
Change the field database collation from latin1_general_ci into utf8_general_ci
Done

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Rangaraj January 17, 2009 at 4:51 pm | Permalink Reply

Nice informations
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izulthea September 29, 2010 at 11:46 am | Permalink Reply

DOes Not work for me! another?
izulthea September 29, 2010 at 12:17 pm | Permalink Reply

Hello again,

the problem is on Word Adds On, i found solution right here
http://m-alwi.com/posting-dengan-huruf-arab-di-wordpress-self-hosting.html

thanks for your post!