Memo while installing WordPress in Japanese
- In order to localize wordpress, you need ja.mo file. Japanese WordPress team has it available. Create the wp-includes/languages (I had to create that folder) and put it in.
- Then edit wp-config.php, define (’WPLANG’, ”); to define (’WPLANG’, ‘ja’);
- A way to display Japanese date and time in php: Y? n? j? l and g?i? (interesting discussion).
- WordPress’s documentation is quite good. Also available:Japanese Codex.
- As for the theme, I am checking out a WordPress theme framework work called Thematic by Ian Stewart. It even has an unofficial Japanese language pack, which you need to download and put in
/[your_WP_dir]/wp-content/themes/thematic/library/languagesby ahoseek san (Thank you!). Here is how-to on Customizing The Thematic Theme Framework - Last but not least, This is the problem I have faced for a long time, but when WordPress went from 2.0.x to 2.2, they changed the “database character set and the collation” rules, and I have not updated couple of my blogs. There seems to be a solution now: Converting Database Character Sets (Japanese here). Maybe next time when I have a lot of time, I will finally do it. My previous search lead me to this and this, but I think the WordPress article is more practical?
Edit:
Obviously, I am not doing something right. Since Japanese characters I used is turned into “?”s.
Tried changing WP-config.php‘s database collation to unicode by editing define('DB_COLLATE', 'utf8_general_ci'); but not seems to be working. Mmmmm.
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