Full UTF-8
Trustfully write anything in your language. Stop worrying about truncated content.
5(6 reviews)
·400 active installs·Updated 11 years agoAs of April 2026, Full UTF-8 is a WordPress utf8 plugin with 400 active installations and a 5/5 rating from 6 reviews. It has been downloaded 19K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 1.0+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2011. Last updated 11 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Top alternative: UTF-8 Database Converter.
5/56 reviews
400active installs
19K+total downloads
15 yearssince 2011
Overview
Full UTF-8 adds complete support for any UTF-8 character.
Without this plugin, WordPress truncates anything after the first 4-bytes-long UTF-8 character.
Suppose you copy some text from a web page and paste it into the editor. You see
everything is fine, so you hit save. As soon as the page is reloaded, you find out that your post
has been truncated at a point that seems to be quite random. Well, that’s not random.
The breaking point is the position of the first 4-bytes-long UTF-8 character.
Anything from that one up to the end of the post is irremediably lost forever.
You definitely need to install this plugin if you write 4-bytes-long UTF-8 characters.
How do you know that? Many Chinese characters, musical and mathematical symbols and Emoji icons
are 4-bytes-long. But you can alwa…
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Ratings & Reviews
56 reviews
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Compatibility
| WordPress | 1.0+ requiredTested up to 4.0.38 |
| PHP | false+ required |
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Changelog
2.0.1
- Refreshed main code from WP 4.0.
- Added some images.
- Improved the description.
- Added banner and icon.
Contributors
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