Why still iso-8859-1?

[Axel Wers]

Why does this board use iso-8859-1 encoding and not utf-8?

[Matt]

Legacy reasons really. IP.Board 1.0 to 2.0 used ISO-8859-1 as the default encoding.

We've not found a compelling enough reason to convert all the data over to UTF-8. It can be tricky when you consider serialized strings that may contain non UTF-8 characters so converting them over may break them, etc.

We do want to convert to UTF-8 at some point.

[Axel Wers]

Legacy reasons really. IP.Board 1.0 to 2.0 used ISO-8859-1 as the default encoding.

Thanks

We do want to convert to UTF-8 at some point.

Yes, it would be good because to special characters problems. When I have some issues with ľščťžýáíéúäô on my utf-8 board, here on iso-8859-1 board I couldn't reproduce it. I didn't have bigger problems with this, but who knows...

[Christian M.]

Thats when i manually convert the DB to UTF-8, because when you import some sql files within a DB the encoding doesnt accept the special characters so i just decided to manually change the DB to UTF-8