[nevetS]

OK... so here we go. Beware that this may potentially cause some problems because we're changing character encoding. I don't know what kind of problems it might cause but there seems to be a lot of discussion about UTF-8 and I personally don't know a heck of a lot about it.

My mindset is to give it a shot, and be prepared to roll back these changes if they affect anything else.

In your carp configuration plugin - the one that has a hook on global_start
add:

CarpConf('encodingout','UTF-8');

Then go into your admincp and go to languages.

select language manager, then edit the US English settings. Change the character set from ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8 and then it should work.

The things I would be concerned about testing right off the bat would be any add-ons you have that involve javascript. I don't think this change updates the database at all, so the underlying database tables probably still have a character set of ISO-8859-1. Try posting and searching text that includes unicode characters - maybe copy/paste from http://www.revfad.com/flip.html