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I am an administrator in the Larian forum. After the last update (7.5.8), some special and accented characters would be changed when posted, even though they were displayed properly in the preview. For example, the degree symbol ° would become ?ï½° (see the topic Forums text display bug for more).
This is sometimes annoying in English, but effects posts made in French and German much more.

I assume the issue is similar to the black diamond problem after the 7.5.9 update, but in this case old posts are fine, unless they are edited.

Where do I check/change the character set used when previewing, vs when posting/editing (if that is the problem)? The generic.php file lists the charset as the default iso-8859-1.
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you could try setting it to utf-8
Look at:
https://www.ubbcentral.com/forums/ubbthreads.php/ubb/showflat/Number/256753
It is not the same error as you have but it is still a translation issue.
Could be that your database is utf-8 and before your upgrade you had it set to utf-8


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It's the same issue with the character set I believe; the posts in the database are encoded differently than what the forum is telling the user's browser to use. Basically the only fix is contained within that wiki entry.

Id242 posted a method to convert your database from one character set to another, but it's all done manually.


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In that case, there must be separate databases, one for old posts using the correct character set, and one for new or edited posts using something else.
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