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Kaitlyn2004 · #1 10-13-2009, 01:51 PM

We were on 3.7.3 and upgraded to 3.8.4 PL1.

We have changed our character set and everything to UTF8. Unfortunately some of our older tables are latin1.

After this upgrade, we are now having character issues where some characters show up as question marks on the forums. I assume that any post/thread going forward will be fine, but we're stuck with tons of older posts with character issues!

Is there anything we can do about this/what can we do?

Thanks!

JamesC70 · #2 10-14-2009, 12:49 AM

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Originally Posted by Kaitlyn2004

We have changed our character set and everything to UTF8. Unfortunately some of our older tables are latin1.

After this upgrade, we are now having character issues where some characters show up as question marks on the forums.

The simplest thing to do would be to revert back to Latin 1 before you accumulate many more posts.

snakes1100 · #3 10-14-2009, 12:53 AM

You could try and PM Marco if i recall he has a script to convert the characters to what they need to be, you could also issue a support ticket at vbulletin.com were you should be posting for support.

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