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I have a virtual Server set up now so i can try out the conversion.

Following this wiki conversion information Click me
And this for the black diamonds Click Me
Which i've done, and i have Diamonds in place of £ i've followed the Black Diamond link and double checked everything twice.
What i can say, if i put the generic.php Characterset back to iso-8859-1 the Dimonds go away and show £ as expected.

Original generic.php = iso-8859-1
Original Database = latin1_swedish_ci

New generic.php = utf-8
New Database = utf8_general_ci

I've rebuilt Posts, Topics, Forums, Signatures, and Private Messages.
Cleared the cache.

For Reference my Posts Rebuild 850MiB took 3hrs in version 7.5.9 which is quicker than 7.5.8 if i remember correctly.


I've tried viewing the topics in IE and its showing the same diamonds just incase chrome was playing up.
My Diamonds have a ? in them, if that's any different.

Detail info :
My virtual server
Web Server Apache/2.2.3
PHP Version 5.1.6
MySQL Version 5.0.95
Forums 7.5.9

My Live Forum
Web Server Apache/2
PHP Version 5.3.29
MySQL Version 5.5.40
Forums 7.5.8

I don't think there is an issue with the versions, as everything is up and running as expected.
My virtual server is running a copy of my live forums, and the conf file edited to work locally.

Summary
If I change the Characterset back to iso-8859-1 in generic.php it displays as expected.
However my goal is to convert and have the correct result in anticipation of the next release.
We have a forsale section and the "£" is used quite a lot, i cant just leave triangles.
So my test Database has come from a higher version of mysql if that has any bearing on the results.

Its not a problem to try again, i just want to be sure i'm not missing something. E.g. Versions ??
Or it should work and just try again.

Thanks for any feed back.

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