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Last updated by Bigul 1 year, 11 months ago.

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June 8, 2023 at 11:11 am #13792467

petterH-2

I have an issue with Utf8mb4 charset

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June 9, 2023 at 10:20 am #13798751

Bigul
WPML Supporter since 01/2013

Languages: English (English )

Timezone: Europe/Vienna (GMT+02:00)

Hello,

Welcome to the WPML support forum. I will do my best to help you to resolve the issue.

For WordPress sites, the recommended charset is utf8mb4 and the recommended collation is utf8mb4_unicode_ci. Please refer to the following documentation for more details.

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https://developer.wordpress.org/advanced-administration/before-install/howto-install/#using-phpmyadmin

So please verify the following and let us know your feedback.

1) Open the wp-config.php file of your site root folder for editing and check if you have something similar to the following code.

define( 'DB_CHARSET', 'utf8' );

2) Maybe in the database there are some tables with different collations and it could be the reason for the warning(they usually start with utf8mb4 like utf8mb4_general_ci for example). So please login to the database using a tool like PHPMyAdmin and check if some tables have a different collation or not.

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Thanks!

Bigul