Hi

We have a script that automatically add updates from Facebook as a post in UBB. The programmer who did the script encountered a problem. The data from the facebook posts is in UTF-8 encoding whilst UBB displays ISO/IEC 8859-1 encoding which is causing some posts to display wrong characters. I am being asked if I can cover UBB to UTF-8. Is that possible? Can it be done for 1 forum only? What are the drawbacks? What will happen to the past posts?

It's a pretty big process to convert the database to utf-8 but one we're doing for version 8. You might be able to get away with just changing the charset in the languages/english/generic.php to utf-8 and see if that works for you. Side effects might be some multi-byte characters not displaying properly.

Thanks for the quick response. I will see if we can come up with another solution.

Newer versions of Apache default to using character set utf8 instead of 8851-1.

For many, the quick fix after migration to a newer server is to edit this file:

ubbthreads/languages/english/generic.php

and update this:

$ubbt_lang['CHARSET'] = "UTF-8";

to this:

$ubbt_lang['CHARSET'] = "8859-1";