I checked your discussion links and they are all from about 2010, nearly 15 years ago. thats a lot of time to be sitting on their database without properly upgrading it from Windows-1252 to UTF-8, which is internet standard.
in 2012, two years after the linked posts were created, Windows-1252's usage was only 1.5% across the internet
![[Linked Image]](https://www.ubbcentral.com/forums/ubbthreads.php/ubb/download/Number/3521/filename/unnamed.jpg)
2024. less than 0.3% usage
source:
https://w3techs.com/technologies/details/en-windows1252![[Linked Image]](https://www.ubbcentral.com/forums/ubbthreads.php/ubb/download/Number/3522/filename/en-windows1252.png)
further reading here
https://www.ubbcentral.com/forums/u...ging-from-iso-8859-1-to-utf-8#Post263058a guide on how to manually convert your database here
https://www.ubbcentral.com/forums/u...an-we-finally-switch-to-utf-8#Post255103ubbt 7.7.4 introduces a conversion tool
https://www.ubbcentral.com/forums/u...ue/7-7-4-changelog-discussion#Post263542[NEW] CP: Content Rebuilder can now help transition your forum tables for full unicode support (utf8mb4) which will allow for Asian characters and Emojis to be used. 4-Byte UTF-8 Unicode requires MySQL 5.5.3 or above. It is highly recommend to create a database backup as the process cannot be undone.
directions on how to use this built in conversion tool is further down in that thread here:
https://www.ubbcentral.com/forums/u...re-7-7-4-changelog-discussion#Post263563
