Saving name in Japanese characters results in "???"

[Nao]

Steps to reproduce:

1. Go to your Edit Profile page within a WordCamp.org site.
2. Type in some Japanese characters in any of the name fields. e.g. 高野直子
3. Update profile (save).
4. Check the name field - each character is saved as a question mark.

[iandunn]

I was able to reproduce this.

[Takahashi_Fumiki]

#2746 was marked as a duplicate.

[dd32]

Users really shouldn't edit their User profile via WordCamp (But I realise the need to, since most organisers might not know where else to change their Display Name, etc), but disabling that page is probably more trouble than it's worth.

This would probably be fixed by my recent charset HyperDB fixes once ported to WordCamp.

[ryelle]

@dd32 Do you know if the HyperDB changes you mentioned above were ported to WordCamp.org?

I'm still seeing this bug, and we had another report of the name "Levänen" not displaying correctly (not totally sure if it's the same issue).

[dd32]

Replying to ryelle:

dd32 Do you know if the HyperDB changes you mentioned above were ported to WordCamp.org?

They haven't been ported to WordCamp.org - In order to do that, WordCamp needs to drop the public HyperDB plugin in favour of the WordPress.org variant.
In my testing, it was a drop-in replacement, but I wasn't willing to change it at the time due to inability to test some changes.

[dd32]

This ticket has been moved to GitHub ​https://github.com/WordPress/wordcamp.org/issues/590