Shoutbox

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Originally posted by WDZ

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Originally posted by Mike
This is probably a long shot, but isn't making it unicode-compatible easy as setting the charset to utf-8 and adjusting the database so that it saves in unicode?

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No, you also need to use multibyte-aware string functions everywhere you deal with Unicode strings. And there are probably some other issues I can't think of right now.

* WDZ isn't that interested in i18n stuff because he only knows English

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Originally posted by Mike
Can't you just set the collation to utf8_general_ci?

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Yeah, I think that's all MyBB does... issues a few ALTER TABLE queries and lets MySQL do all the work.

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