Looks like the charset defaulted to iso-8859-1 with the upgrade from 7.3 to 7.3.1.

Problem is that I don't remember what it was set to in 7.3. But I had no problems with foreign languages (Greek, Cyrillic and Chinese). If I just reset it to UTF-8 what problems will it cause, if any? Or is there a way to go and look what is stored somewhere in the database?

The default, with the UBB, will always be iso-8859-1, when you overwrite your language files for an upgrade, it'll overwrite your setting (I really wish it was set in the CP vs language file)...

I have UTF-8 set on my forums; there isn't any problem other than characters set in the one charset that don't exist in the other. They'll come out looking "odd"

Questions:

1. After the upgrade to 7.3.1 if I go to Control Panel > Languages there is no language listed (I expected English). Shouldn't English be listed? How do I resolve this?

2. If I click on the "Language Editor" tab there is nothing in the pull-down. If I choose "Choose Specific Language File:" and choose "admin/languageeditor.php" (or really anything) and click "Go" I get a white screen. How do I resolve this?

My upgrade was from 7.2 to 7.3.1 and it went smoothly.

Dumb question; did you upload languages/english when you installed your forum?

Gizmo,

Thanks for asking and sorry I missed your question until now.

Yes, all directories were uploaded including languages/english when I upgraded from 7.2 to 7.3.1 (and there were no upgrade errors). Just checked and all files appear to be there.

Ideas? I could reinstall 7.3.1? Would reinstalling 7.3.1 over 7.3.1 cause any issues?

Thanks!

Jake

OK. I did a trouble ticket. Turned out to be a permission problem.

So I can see and search the language files.

But now I can't find where to change the character set. Under "Language Editor" I searched all files for "character set", "iso", "utf" and "encoding" ("encode"). Nothing was returned. Search is working since I can find other things.

Ideas? I still want to switch back to UTF-8.

Thanks!

languages/english/generic.php

'iso' worked for me -- don't use quotes..

Sirdude,

That did it. I changed the file manually and uploaded it. I was expecting that I could search the language files. I seem to remember that in earlier versions, but could be wrong.

Thanks again!

Jake

you should be able to. i put in iso and hit the search button and it pulled up generic.php..

dunno why yours didn't