Like Isaac said, it sounds like your database is expecting the data to be in one format, but the forums are presenting it in iso-8859-1; more recent versions of UBB.threads (namely v7.6.0) fixes quite a lot of problems over past releases.

If you look at the UBBWiki posting "UBB.Threads Changelog Index", you're running v7.5.5 (February 10th, 2010) whereas the latest is v7.6.0 (February 15th, 2017). There have been a vast number of improvements over the 7 year span since your version was released (if you click on a release it'll show you the developer notes).


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