Change encoding of whole vB forum - how to?
 

Hi.

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

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

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

no that's just for the meta tag.

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

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%.

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 :)

neat tool. Hope that helps. GL.

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

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