vbulletin search engine problem with UTF-8

[shahryar_neo]

Hi all ;

I've an iranian forum it used latin1 collocation and I convert it to UTF-8 . but vbulletin search doesn't work ( either it doesn't work before converting to UTF8 ) . when I use english word , it works but for persian words it doesn't work .

would you please help ?

[Marco van Herwaarden]

This is best asked on the vBulletin.com forums.

[shahryar_neo]

asked but no good answer .

see when I use vB search it's ok but I couldn't use Fulltext my sql search . how big this effect my forum's resources ?

[rmxs]

You can install ajax live search works better that default search engine

[usefee]

any one cant help us ?
i have same problem too...

[Nosfer@tu]

Im helping a freind with some UTF-8 issues and italian letter "?".

The response from VBulletin.com is

i asked to the support..and they told me:
vB does not support UTF-8 at this time, nor do we have instructions for doing this. The only thing you can try is this this unofficial and unsupported add-on to see if this works for you:

http://www.vcharset.com/

Best regards,
Steve Machol