I knew its a old thread but I run in the same problem. Its not only the change of the language string in generic.php. This may help at the frst view but take a closer look to your database tables. I write a longer text about this here: https://www.ubbcentral.com/forums/u...coding-utf-8-and-older-forums#Post261912

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