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abozich · #1 03-18-2019, 12:49 PM

Just recently, I've noticed that things like apostrophes are being converted to question marks when some users post them.

I've done a bit of research on this and it looks like it comes primarily when users post from an iOS device and have smart punctuation turned on.

And while I can instruct people to turn off smart punctuation as a bandaid, I am curious if there is a better way to address this. Do I need to change my character set to UTF-8? And if so, what does that entail?

I don't have any modifications at all on our forum or plugins.

In Omnibus · #2 03-18-2019, 03:08 PM

I think UTF-8 MB4 is the recommended character set.

Languages & Phrases -> Language Manager -> Edit... Put your character encoding in the space.

Settings -> Options -> Censorship Options. Remove the characters from the blank character stripper.

Edit your config.php and search for UTF-8. Uncomment this line, save the file and upload to your server.

Finally, you need to convert your entire database to UTF-8 if it isn't already.

z3r0 · #3 03-18-2019, 06:23 PM

It was discussed here a while back - https://www.vbulletin.com/forum/foru...on-ios-android

abozich · #4 03-19-2019, 03:18 PM

Thank you for sharing.

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