4.2.3 upgrade issues

[Rock Shock Pop]

Hi,

I just ran the update and patched my site so that it is running 4.2.3.

Since doing that, I've run into some strange issues.

TEXT - First up, reviews that used to display regular text are now showing strange characters in their place. You can see an example of that here:




FORUM HEADER PAGE - Two issues on the main page.

Issue #1 is that I used to be able to 'write over' the vBulletin logo png file in the top left corner and use custom site related banners. I tried to doing that and while the file did write over the default image (forums/images/misc/vbulletin4_logo.png) it does not display the custom banner for some reason.

Issue #2 is that there used to be a HOME button on the top left under the banner, that is now gone and I can't seem to figure out how to get it back.



Anyone know how to fix these three quirks?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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Figured out the banner issue, it was an ftp setting.

Still no luck on the other two. Server settings show unicode-8 so this text thing is puzzling me.

[z3r0]

Have you checked if the Character Set settings in Language manager is correct?

[Rock Shock Pop]

Hi - thanks for the response. So far as I can tell the language settings and PhpMyadmin settings are all correct. Here's what I'm using.