Hi Paul!
I had a problem yesterday when I put back a sq backup made with this mod, and maybe you cant give me some advice about it.
I use a utf8 Spanish forum, because there's some symbols like the ? or accents who cant be showed properly without utf8.
The forum work perfect with the language option of charset tuned to utf8, etc
But yesterday I migrate the forum from a cluster server to a dedicated one, and when I put the system back the database shows all the special characters wrong.
I put it back uploading the backup with ftp, and the running this:
Code:
mysql -uUSER -p DATABASE < /../../../../../backup/db-100220-Full-Backup.sql
Well, It's the standard one

Nothing out of ordinary.
When I open the mysql with phpmyadmin, and examine the data itself, (ej: post) in the
pagetext column I can read the info contained, but It's wrong with the same mistaken charset symbols.
The MySQL charset its UTF-8 Unicode (utf8)
And the collation its utf8_general_ci
But then there some of the tables collated in latin1_swedish_ci
I don't know anything more to play with, trying to recover it.
Could you give me some advice?