How to Enable Arabic Letters in WordPress

Mukhlas Rowi gives a tips on how to enable non-Arabic wordpress to suport writing in Arabic letters / alphabet:

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
  

Screenshot by Mukhlas Rowi

Tags: wordpress arabic, wordpress tutorial

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