The charset for php is utf8. I checked locale on the server. Everything was set to utf8 except for LC_ALL which was empty. I set that to en_US.UTF-8. We shall see if that solves the problem.

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UBB.threads Version 8.0.0
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Web Server Apache/2.4.37
PHP Version 8.3.11
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