Every time I try to save a revision to a published post, it just goes to a blank page under http://hontouni.com/souomou/wp-admin/post.php
The post gets truncated to plus/minus 350 words… T_T
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With the dashboard nagging me to upgrade to WP 2.7, I decided that I might as well clear the UTF8 conversion issue first.
Doing it the hard way turned out to a bit of a disaster. It didn’t help that the WP Codex entry was not written for people like me in mind. Unlike the WP Codex entry on Backing Up, there were no screen captures to guide the lost. The instructions lacked the kind of detail needed for those who want to be spoon-fed. Jargon and terminology were left unexplained. Overall, it was assumed that readers were familiar with mySQL. I don’t know anything about mySQL - I did not even know the difference between a table and a column. orz
After I ran into some problems, I back-pedalled to square one. Thankfully my backup restored the Latin1 database without any glitches.
I then decided to take a risk with the plugin that Kabitzin used last year even though the plugin author only maintained it up to WP 2.2 and the relevant WP Forum threads have reported data corruption due to using the plugin.
So far it seems ok. The view in phpMyAdmin also showed that the collation has been changed to utf8_general_ci. I haven’t to do any F&R yet. I’m really grateful to Kabitzin for writing and updating that UTF8 entry. Thanks, you’re the best!!
After that, the WP 2.7 upgrade was also completely smoothly. For once, I was quite happy and eager to upgrade. Assuming the one-click upgrade tool works properly, it will make WP upgrades, with their irritating frequency, so much less of a chore for site owners. Though plugin and theme writers are probably still pulling their hair out.
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I’m not sure if jpmeyer and hinano will entertain requests (’Mendou dakara!’ LOL) but my now-broken links to their former blogs itches like bugs on my brain. Of course I’d love for both blogs to be resurrected in their entirety (UTF-8 problems notwithstanding) but, to most efficiently scratch the above-mentioned itch, I would request for jp’s AWESOMENESS post (yes, the one with the pic of Nanoha charging in on Elian Gonzalez) and hinano’s post where she complained about Shugo Chara rape doujins.
On a separate but somewhat related note, the most hontouni posts with the most number of hits (according to WP Stats) are:
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.A couple of Wordpress upgrades ago, all the moon language on this blog phased into an even more unknowable language. After fiddling with the ja.mo file, I *finally* (slowpoke.jpg) realized that the problem was due to the CHARSET being defined as ‘utf8′ in the wpconfig.php. The fix was to remove the value (leaving just ”) and now the moon language in the database can read again!
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