sate Posted June 10, 2021 Share Posted June 10, 2021 (edited) Hi everyone. Recently I upgraded 3.4.6 to latest 4.5.2 version. All went fine but the enconding were a mess. There were no errors during the upgrade, all checks were green and the UTF8 convertor did not showed any errors. Now I am with unreadable content and I seek help. The hosting that I am using has defauld charset latin1, should I ask them to change the server charset to UTF8 ? Any advice will be helpful. I already addressed the support, but the said that is on DB level mess. Anyway, I got the same DB for 7 years on my previous version working fine. And again - no errors during the upgrade! Before the upgrade, I was using the same DB with Edited June 16, 2021 by sate Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SeNioR- Posted June 10, 2021 Share Posted June 10, 2021 (edited) Check that the forums_posts table characters were converted in the correct way. If so, it is the server's fault. 3 hours ago, sate said: The hosting that I am using has defauld charset latin1, should I ask them to change the server charset to UTF8 ? Yes definitely. Server character encoding should be set to UTF-8 Unicode (utf8mb4). Edited June 10, 2021 by SeNioR- Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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