1 Reply by grey

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I totally agree with your conclusion. Thank you!

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2 Reply by grey

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Tried to set $lang_multibyte to "true" and search now is working except that search cannot find utf-8 two byte characters with different case (lowercase, uppercase) but that`s understandable.

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3 Reply by grey

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Rickard,

I am using PHP 4.3.4 + MySQL 3.23.42.

Yes, I know that mySql does not support utf-8. As far I understand, utf-8 support means that the metadata (names of fields, columns, tables) can be in utf-8 form, and utf-8 aware data sorting.
However, for basic data manipulations (store, read, write) as with punBB, there should be no problems. Except search, which seems to not recognize utf-8 two-byte characters.

I found "lang_multibyte" in *common.php, which is set to false. Should I enable it?

Thanks,
Grey

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4 Reply by grey

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I believe you are talking about full unicode support in MySql, however, i guess that I dont need it for simply storing utf-8 content in the database.

So far everything is working and displaying correctly including russian characters. If there will be any issues, I will certainly report them.

Thanks, Grey

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5 Reply by grey

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Thanks, Jansson!

I have translated all the language files to utf-8, and so far I have only one issue. When a user is using Russian locale and he is writing a new topic, he receives a message: "Messages must not contain only capital letters and special characters in this forum." on submit.

However, as far i know this check can be disabled in administrator`s options.

Thank you. I am very satisfied with punBB. Cobalt style looks absoulutely stunning! Thank you, again!

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6 Topic by grey

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Hello,

Due to subjective reasons, i am thinking about changing punBB`s charset to UTF-8 and translating language files.

I would appreciate any comments about any possible problems/issues.

PHP 4.3.x and MySQL have certain UTF-8 support. However it`s possible that there are some reasons I don`t know, which makes the whole converting process hopeless.

Thanks in advance,
Grey

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