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Kaitlyn2004

10-13-2009 01:51 PM

Ugh, character issues!

We were on 3.7.3 and upgraded to 3.8.4 PL1.

We have changed our character set and everything to UTF8. Unfortunately some of our older tables are latin1.

After this upgrade, we are now having character issues where some characters show up as question marks on the forums. I assume that any post/thread going forward will be fine, but we're stuck with tons of older posts with character issues!

Is there anything we can do about this/what can we do?

Thanks!

JamesC70

10-14-2009 12:49 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Kaitlyn2004 (Post 1899090)

We have changed our character set and everything to UTF8. Unfortunately some of our older tables are latin1.

After this upgrade, we are now having character issues where some characters show up as question marks on the forums.

The simplest thing to do would be to revert back to Latin 1 before you accumulate many more posts.

snakes1100

10-14-2009 12:53 AM

You could try and PM Marco if i recall he has a script to convert the characters to what they need to be, you could also issue a support ticket at vbulletin.com were you should be posting for support.

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