Transfer
As you can see the site has transfered ok, apart from wordpress 2.7.1 doesn’t like japanese characters, they all just show up as 「九つ」- if they change from ? marks to characters then I suppose it’s been fixed.
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Well all it took was a little phpMyAdmin editing, going through and changing every collation entry on the database. Just in case you have the same problem, a quick run down of what to do if Japanese, Chinese or other foreign characters will not display on your wordpress page. Going into each database main folder, e.g. “wp_posts”, changing each instance of “latin1_general_ci” or whatever it may be, to “utf8_general_ci” on the “Structure” tab. Now do the same on the “Operations” tab in the “Table Options” section. All you need to do now is re-enter any characters that have been replaced with question marks in your posts. I probably made it sound easy and safe, though it wasn’t that difficult, as I figured this out just stumbling around the phpMyAdmin section. I didn’t, but would advise on backing up any and all database entries first.
