If you found difficulties or your wordpress unable to support chinese character, you can follow the below step, modify the database at phpmyadmin,

1. Login to cPanel, run phpmyadmin:

2. Select the Wordpress database you’re using on the left side panel:

3. You’ll see something like this, might defer from yours as some plugins will add their own tables:

4. Anyway, on this screen, under the “collation” column, if you see latin1_swedish_ci, you’ll need to change that to utf8_unicode_ci!!! Click on the button 2nd from left on the column that says “Action” shown below:

5. You’ll reach a page that says Structure as shown below, check everything that says latin1_swedish_ci, then click on the edit button which looks like a pencil:

6. You’ll reach another page like the one below, change everything to utf8_unicode_ci, then click Save:

7. Then, when you finished saving, goto the tab that says “Operations”:

8. Change again setting to utf8_unicode_ci, then press “Go”:

9. Repeat steps for all that are not “utf8_unicode_ci”. You should be able to write in Chinese characters now.

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