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Problem After Restoration

Posted: Thu Nov 27, 2008 7:13 am
by Sarao
Hi,
I have a vbulletin forum, I had some problems in the past, so I had backed up and then restored the database. But after restoration, it shows me some STRANGE characters on some posts. I have to edit and replce those. Why is it happening?

Re: Problem After Restoration

Posted: Sat Nov 29, 2008 11:56 pm
by josh
Character set / encoding mismatch

Re: Problem After Restoration

Posted: Thu Dec 04, 2008 4:52 am
by Sindarin
I've recently being transferring a database from an old server to a new one and had the same problem because the previous web developer had not taken his time to set the db collation properly. I had to find some workarounds and convert the collation from swedish to utf8_general_ci with this tool: http://www.phoca.cz/articles/web/how-to ... -database/