Change encoding of whole vB forum - how to?

[NLP-er]

Hi.

Does anybody knows how to change encoding for whole vB forum?

[desie310]

admincp > languages and phrases > language manager > edit settings > html character set

[NLP-er]

Thanks - and will it re encode also data stored in DB??

[desie310]

no that's just for the meta tag.

[NLP-er]

So what to do to re-encode full forum? Does changing encoding in mySQL affects already existing data?

[desie310]

you set the charset when creating the database. Then if that charset is different from the default connection charset (latin1) then you change that in your config.php file (http://www.vbulletin.com/docs/html/ -> Installing vBulletin -> Editing the vbulletin configuration file).

I think it would affect the existing data if you changed the charset of a populated database but I'm not 100%.

[NLP-er]

ON other forum I get this: http://www.vcharset.com/

Didn't use yet (other things to do first) but I think it can help :)

[desie310]

neat tool. Hope that helps. GL.

[Zi55]

Hello NLP-er .
be careful when you are using the vCharSet , you need to do it in your own server , because it need high resource and you need to have a long timeouts , and many many many things be sure to take an backup .
Thanks ,
Zi5

[NLP-er]

Thanks for warning. Anyway - if vB Enterprise Translator have to manage multi language communities - forum must be in utf-8...