Noom wrote:could you elaborate this?
As I understand, you did upgrade from 1.2.x? 99% that you're made wrong DB dump. When you import it to a new DB old data are displayed fine, but new UTF-8 special characters stored as "?" because DB tables collation not correct. I would suggest make a query like:
ALTER TABLE `prefix_users` CONVERT TO CHARACTER SET utf8 COLLATE utf8_general_ci
Then for the test set in your signature line at the forum a several special symbols. If I don't mistake, signature line data stored in users table. If everything will be displayed normal, you will need to repeat these step with all remaining DB tables, exept `prefix_search_words`. This worked for me, but be carefull with `prefix_search_words` table - first time i set an "utf8_general_ci" for it, and have some troubles after. Don't touch it, if everything works fine.