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MogKnight
11-02-2005, 02:49 AM
I'm pulling stuff from wordpress's database and inserting it into vb. I'm getting stuff like this:

"It also isn’t right for a menu screen"

in almost every post. how do I get around this?

I did some digging and found out the following:

vbulletin data is ISO-8859-1

wordpress is UTF-8

knowing this, how should I go about importing wordpress data into vbulletin without getting those funky/messed up characters?

I would really, really appreciate help with this

Marco van Herwaarden
11-02-2005, 09:37 AM
You will find some info on converting between these 2 here: http://dev.mysql.com/tech-resources/articles/4.1/unicode.html