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Forum Plugin – language characters issue

Hello

I am having a problem with forum plugin display for Arabic characters , when creating a new forum or new post on forum, characters show as ( ??????????????? ) . Everything is working fine on site all plugins as well but Forum Plugin !

Thanks in adavance

Sun, 28 Sep 2008 11:40:52
  • drmike
    • DEV MAN’s Mascot

    What character set is your forums databases in? I’m betting that it’s not set to utf8. if not, you;re going to have to convert the current forum databases into utf8 (best bet would be to delete the tables and start afresh) and add code to the database creation code within the plugin to set the charset to utf8.

    Someone care to check this to see if the plugin uses utf8? I’m not in a position to do so today.

  • drmike
    • DEV MAN’s Mascot

    Those of us on CPanel shared hosting can’t do so though. Some of those like that have their *cough* hosts set the default charset to latin1. :smiley:

    Actually you can override it with a locally placed php.ini I believe. Probably should do that sometime.

    Note to xb: that’s something you need to double check on all plugins. Many authors don’t set a charset when they create databases. wp-shortstat doesn’t for example.