Googling for this problem quite some thing, but it seem never get a right solution. Until I found the following solution from a book. This problem arise mainly because most of the systems when you create a database, the collation is set at “latin1_swedish_ci” as default. All you need is to change the collation “utf8_unicode_ci” for all the tables where you plan to include Chinese characters in. Here are the following step by step diagram.
1. Login to cPanel, click phpmyadmin:
2. Select the WordPress database on the left side panel:
3. You’ll see something like this:
4. On this screen, under the “collation” column, if you see latin1_swedish_ci, you’ll need to change that to utf8_unicode_ci:
5. Check everything that says latin1_swedish_ci, then click on the edit button which looks like a pencil. You’ll reach another page like the one below, change everything to utf8_unicode_ci, then click Save:
6. Then, when you finished saving, goto the tab that says “Operations”:
7. Change again setting to utf8_unicode_ci, then press “Go”:
8. Repeat steps for all that are not “utf8_unicode_ci”. You should be able to write in Chinese characters now.
