UBB provides that information with every registration. I always check the actual location from which they registered with the location that claim to be from. If it's nonsenical, I deny the registration.

So, somehow, UBB is not rendering characters in utf8, which makes no sense at all to me because the doctype is utf8 and the db is using utdfmb4.


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Server Information
UBB.threads Version 8.0.0
Release 20240826
Server OS Linux
Server Load 0.11
Web Server Apache/2.4.37
PHP Version 8.3.11
MYSQL Version 8.0.39
Database Size 1.82 GB