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Hi,

I'm wondering if the forums are using the Unicode char set.
This is because non-Latin characters are shown in a very weird cmbination of letters, numbers & more..

Nope, the board doesn't support Unicode.

I see..

Can't support for Unicode be added?

The latest version of MyBB supports unicode, not sure if it could be added to this board.

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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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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I believe you need to convert existing data in the database to utf-8, well that's what MyBB 1.2.10 done anyway.

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Originally posted by Chris UK

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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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I believe you need to convert existing data in the database to utf-8, well that's what MyBB 1.2.10 done anyway.

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Can't you just set the collation to utf8_general_ci?

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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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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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Another reason to update.

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Originally posted by .Lou
Another reason to update.

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But MyBB 1.4's Unicode support is still buggy... it wouldn't let me ban my test user.