UBB.threads PHP Forum Software Community Forums Thread Like Summary - Punctuation marks appears as ?

Greetings . . .

The UBB 7.7.5 over at Inliners is complete. One of the things I've noticed in browsing through old posts is that some contain these strange diamond encased ? marks. This posting in particular is one of mine from '15:
https://www.inliners.org/ubbthreads/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=84476



On longer posts I always compose them in Outlook, save in a draft folder and then post them when complete. Could this be result of the cut-and-paste operation?

They didn't appear this way 7.5.8. Or when pasted into the New Post box. These should be single quote and dash.

And clue what is at play?

regards,
Keith

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This has to do with
CHARSET'] = "iso-8859-1
and CHARSET'] = "utf-8
In the language files and database that collation do not match for iso-8859-1.
You can search here for diamond for a start.
Like
https://www.ubbcentral.com/forums/ubbthreads.php/ubb/showflat/Number/257369
https://www.ubbcentral.com/forums/ubbthreads.php/ubb/showflat/Number/262227
https://www.ubbcentral.com/forums/ubbthreads.php/ubb/showflat/Number/259803

Then you will need to make a decision to either switch back to iso-8859-1
or attempt to convert to utf-8

Basically if you wish to stay at iso-8859-1
GOTO the UBB CP select languages and then edit generic.php
The first entry probably has utf-8 then just change it to iso-8859-1
save and exit.