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"

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