[stardotstar]

yes, I am the host, the server is an HP ProLiant 360DL running Gentoo Linux and 2.6 Kernel with all the appropriate modules and components of apache2, MySQL and php. All diagnostics are fine and the system is working in every other respect. So I don't quite know where to start digging with respect to this issue with my vB.

On my second board - a completely unmodded 3.8.1PL1 I can't post any symbols - ie even 8? shows as 8

confused.

I note also that when I send the email

8? of separation

from round cube which is php and uses the same host same database and so on it comes through as 8?


Update: I notice that it is unchanged when the font is changed when posting;

BUT when I enter 6? in a post and hit "preview" I see the correct symbol in the preview post but upon submitting the post and the in any subsequent edit I see the 6?
On my modded forum the 8? shows as 8? and on the unmodded one I get only 8

further I find that my charset is (supposedly) correctly assigned and publishing as:
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" />