Topic: Creating categories/forum with specific national characters
Hi,
I can`t create categories and forums with Polish characters 
List of characters: ???????ó? ???????Ó?
Example error message: "Error: Unable to update forum."
Re: Creating categories/forum with specific national characters
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Re: Creating categories/forum with specific national characters
File: \www\forum\admin_forums.php
Line: 181
PunBB reported: Unable to update forum
Database reported: Data too long for column 'forum_name' at row 1 (Errno: 1406)
Re: Creating categories/forum with specific national characters
Aha 
You're using one of the newer versions of MySQL in strict mode?
Re: Creating categories/forum with specific national characters
Ok, done.
MySQL command: "SET NAMES latin2" send after mysql_connect resolve a problem
Re: Creating categories/forum with specific national characters
arekp wrote:
Ok, done.
MySQL command: "SET NAMES latin2" send after mysql_connect resolve a problem
I was going to suggest SET NAMES 'UTF8', but whatever works
7 2006-10-29 20:40 (edited by arekp 2006-10-29 20:41)
Re: Creating categories/forum with specific national characters
Smartys wrote:
I was going to suggest SET NAMES 'UTF8', but whatever works
HTML header Content-Type is set to iso-8859-2. SET NAMES must be set to a 'latin2' becouse data posted from HTML are encoded in latin2.
Re: Creating categories/forum with specific national characters
Ah, makes sense: converting to UTF-8 just seems to be more popular around here 