Foreign Languages on vB

[Dribbles]

Do you need to install some special software to allow a forum to handle posts in Chinese / Japanese / Korean or are these languages already supported by vBulletin? Thank you

[Dismounted]

You can find vBulletin Language Packs here (http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=96).

vBulletin support posts in pretty much any language. However, some languages may require the database tables to be UTF-8 (if they are not already).

[Dribbles]

Thank you. Are you aware if Chinese / Japanese / Korean requires this database? Is there any way to check if my database is UTF-8?

[Dismounted]

Just test the languages by posting messages with those characters, and viewing the thread, etc.