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Originally Posted by motd2

You have a problem with the encoding in the database.

Thanks for the suggestion. I manged to get the forum displaying properly by adding the following into the config.php file

$config['Mysqli']['charset'] = 'latin1';

What confuses me though is if I check the character_set in mariadb with the query: SHOW VARIABLES LIKE 'char%';

I can see the character set is not latin1 but utf8.

However, if I go into the admin panel for vB and check the diagnostics for MySQL variables I see character_set_results, character_set_connection and character_set_client reporting latin1

I'm not sure if this is due to the config.php value or if something else has a misconfigured value.