WizMeister Posted September 7, 2012 Share Posted September 7, 2012 Hello! I am a happy new owner of a IP.Board licence. I am trying to make a switch from phpBB The Converter worked almost fine but the only issue is when I start a new topic or answer another one not all greek characters remain on the post text. The Greek letters α and β change into a and b. Let me show you: What's going on? I entered on mysql and saw that collation was set latin1, i switched it to utf8_general_ci on all tables. That didn't change the outcome. on system settings I have UTF-8 encoding set. What should i do? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aiwa Posted September 7, 2012 Share Posted September 7, 2012 Do be careful changing collation in the database... Do be very very careful... It's not something that can willy nilly be changed. You are likely on the right track, though. You may need your database charset completely converted. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WizMeister Posted September 7, 2012 Author Share Posted September 7, 2012 Do be careful changing collation in the database... Do be very very careful... It's not something that can willy nilly be changed. You are likely on the right track, though. You may need your database charset completely converted. I used a php script that did that all automatically But how do I convert the database charset completely? Do I do it from phpmyadmin ? By the way, not all fields on the forum have this problem. Shoutbox has it and the post body has it. The topic title doesn't... they show up correctly Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aiwa Posted September 7, 2012 Share Posted September 7, 2012 I'm not entirely sure of the specifics... I have just seen too many issues in the past of clients willy nilly changing collation and causing serious issues with their board... There are some in the Custom Services directory that can do this for you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soki Posted September 17, 2012 Share Posted September 17, 2012 I have the same problem after updating into 3.3.4 !!! is there any solution for that? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EarthDog Posted October 2, 2012 Share Posted October 2, 2012 Also the same problem here... We need some solid solution for this... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marcher Technologies Posted October 2, 2012 Share Posted October 2, 2012 http://community.invisionpower.com/resources/bugs.html/_/ip-board/greek-language-error-old-new-topics-r37879 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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