phpGedView 4.1 Beta includes PunBB as a module.
I have installed it on my test URL.
http://www.amitys.com/future/phpGedView
When I write in the forum text certain characters they are shown as black diamonds with a ? in them.
phpMyAdmin shows that MySQL charset is UTF-8 and connection collation is utf8_unicode_ci
the table collation is latin1_swedish_ci
all the PunBB tables are MyISAM, except punbb_online that is HEAP
I have earlier tried to change the PhpGedView table collation to utf-8. This caused me not to see the Hebrew ? as expected, so went back to the latin1_swedish_ci definition.
The characters that do not show on my PunBB installation are:
3 Hebrew letters: Alef ? , Mem sofi (used at the end of a word) ? and Nun ?
Cyrillic
Problems at least with ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
Greek
Problems with ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
Arabic (I hope these are the correct used UTF-8 letters)
Problems with ? (alif) ?(ba) ? (gim) ?(ta) ? (?ayn) ? (lam) ? (?alif maq??ra) ??(kasra) ?? (?amma) ? (Arab 0)
Czech, Hungarian, French, Polish etc. letters
Problems with Á Í Ï ? ? ? Ý à ? ?
I have filled these and other letters on your test forum.
They show there as expected.
What causes the problem?
How can I overcome it?
Meliza