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Originally Posted by Merjawy

Well, few minutes ago I tested it on a big forum 4.1.10 (20K users, 25+K threads, close to 100K posts) and everything is still working

I am not so sure if it was actually converted or not, the reason I say that is because I have few java scripts that I expected to have issues with but I didn't !...

I will check everything later today and report as I need some sleep now.

EDIT: Checking db via PhpMyAdmin I see it did convert to UTF8... Thanks

Originally Posted by sadiq6210

Thanks .. great to see this again.
I will test it tomorrow and give you my feedback

Originally Posted by Merjawy

will test it.

Thank you for testing the mod Merjawy, sadiq6210 and thecore762. Looking forward to hear your results I had tested it thoroughly as well before I released it and it worked fine anytime.

Originally Posted by Boofo

I'd be interested to hear back from anyone who has run this. What will this mod do to a db that already has the collation set to UTF-8?

Boofo, if the db 's database collation character is already set to utf-8 then there is no need to run this tool. But even if it is run, there will happen nothing to the db. I have tested it that way too. However, as adviced in the description, it is always best to first make a backup of the database before you do any changes to it.

Originally Posted by Emeralda

Could someone explain to a total baka (read: bimbo) what this actually does? I'm kinda curious.

Emeralda, this tool will change the database collition character to utf-8. That is ideal if you use other languages in your forum other than english that have special characters that are not used in English. These characters can turn up weird on your website. For example, tremas and umlauts, ... (?, ?, ...) etc.