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GTX2
03-22-2011, 10:24 PM
Hello,

I've been running fine with my board lately.
Some time ago i moved servers and upgrade software.
This caused mysql dumps and restore and caused some problems with my HTML Character Set.

I run a portuguese language forum, and some latin characters are not appering correctly:
ç appears sometimes as ç
ã appears sometimes as à

I really don't know if i should use UTF8, 8859-1, ISO-8859-15, windows-1252 or another.
If i set UTF8, all new posts are formatting OK, but older posts are corrupted.
Another problem is my database: i have all my tables in phpmyadmin as latin1_swedish_ci, really don't know why, just was default setting earlier.

What can i do in order to put all older posts formatting correctly as well as new posts?
Thanks!