In 7.2, people were able to post Japanese/Chinese characters in the Forums.

It seems that in 7.3 this is not possible. Or is there a switch/setting somewhere where I can enable this?

Thank you

This all depends on the encoding for the language file being used. If the encoding in the generic.php language file is the default then those characters won't display properly. If it's set to the proper japanese/chinese encoding then they should.

Would I be ok to set it to a Japanese-compatabile encoding in the generic.php file for my English settings? (I don't want to mess up the default English settings!)

(Like I said, this was working in 7.2, I suppose I might have changed that way back but I don't have records of that).

Thank you.

As long as the latin characters are in the character set you should be fine; I change mine to UTF-8 whenever I upgrade.

Thank you I will try that on Monday. Need a rest right now!

Out of curiosity, what's the advantage of UTF-8 over the default iso-8859-1?

Extended characters... It won't effect most English sites as their characters exist within both iso-8859-1 and UTF-8. IF you've used one in the past, you should keep using it, as the data stored one will at times come out b0ged in the other: clicky

I just looked at my updated file:

iso-8859-1

and the original 7.2 backup file I have:

iso-8859-1

Any other ideas there?!

Perhaps I should change it to UTF-8?

Thanks for the help.

Since I have upgraded to 7.3 version I am really struggling to get Croatians characters working on my forum. Any advice?

I am still having problems on ours (as above).

Japanese characters just not working - worked in 7.2.2