.Hi, I had the same Problem as decribed here: [www.phorum.org] and applieed the same solution. I added "charset" => "utf8" to include/db/config.php - but now the Forum-Titels and descriptions are scrued up with placeholders where german special characters are appropriate. I wonder how this can be as the message-bodies are perfectly fine now ? thanx pat https://www.phorum.org/support/read.php?61,135557,135557#msg-135557 Tue, 15 Sep 2026 10:05:35 -0500 Phorum 6.0.4 https://www.phorum.org/support/read.php?61,135557,135584#msg-135584 https://www.phorum.org/support/read.php?61,135557,135584#msg-135584 Maurice Makaay Phorum Support Mon, 22 Dec 2008 14:43:14 -0600 https://www.phorum.org/support/read.php?61,135557,135582#msg-135582 https://www.phorum.org/support/read.php?61,135557,135582#msg-135582 Brian Moon Phorum Support Mon, 22 Dec 2008 14:07:42 -0600 https://www.phorum.org/support/read.php?61,135557,135581#msg-135581 https://www.phorum.org/support/read.php?61,135557,135581#msg-135581 I guess it happened while I was changing the forum over to emerald to rule-out a templating-issue responsible for the missing message-bodies. When I did the template change the descriptions and titles where newly saved (even though I didn't change them) in the db as a side-effect because they are on the same form as the template pull-down. At that time the change in config.php was not jet in place, of course.

Another thing makes me wonder though, my db and the tables are set to be utf-8, nevertheless the kollatation of the rows in the forum-tables are sometimes "latin1_swedish-ci" or "latin1_german2_ci" but all those tables where created by forum-scripts and not me - so I wonder how this can be. Wasn't utf-8 always the phorum-standard ? Can the kollotation be changed safely to be utf-8 ?

thanx
pat]]> pat Phorum Support Mon, 22 Dec 2008 14:03:24 -0600 https://www.phorum.org/support/read.php?61,135557,135560#msg-135560 https://www.phorum.org/support/read.php?61,135557,135560#msg-135560 Maurice Makaay Phorum Support Sun, 21 Dec 2008 17:35:25 -0600 https://www.phorum.org/support/read.php?61,135557,135557#msg-135557 https://www.phorum.org/support/read.php?61,135557,135557#msg-135557
I had the same Problem as decribed here: [www.phorum.org] and applieed the same solution. I added "charset" => "utf8" to include/db/config.php - but now the Forum-Titels and descriptions are scrued up with placeholders where german special characters are appropriate. I wonder how this can be as the message-bodies are perfectly fine now ?

thanx pat]]> pat Phorum Support Sun, 21 Dec 2008 14:29:16 -0600