Hi, I have a bunch of posts and even usernames imported from a MyBB forum that are displaying random characters like â€™ and Â From what I can glean from reports of similar behavior in WordPress, this may be a Latin1 vs UTF8 encoding issue? Is there an easy way to remove these after the fact? W…

[изображение] Paul_King: From what I can glean from reports of similar behavior in WordPress, this may be a Latin1 vs UTF8 encoding issue? Yes. That’s my guess. I’m working with an import now with similar problems. Most of them are things like curly quotes and emdashes. [изображение] Paul…

Thanks Jay. Is there any clever way of dealing with the issue at source - i.e re-exporting database from old forum, then re importing free of characters and mycode issues?

If you’ve not gone live so that starting over isn’t an option, That’s the best way to do it.

Site is not officially live - but what is best way to deal with character issues and mycode parsing when exporting from MyBB?

Exporting all data in UTF-8, if possible, will solve those issues.

I went back to original MyBB installation, and found in admin control panel/Tools and Maintenance/System Health a warning It is recommend not to use different encodings in your database. This may cause unexpected behavior or MySQL errors. The tables are listed, and I could see most but not all w…

[изображение] Paul_King: Not sure still how to deal with MyCode parsing though? You didn’t include any examples or details of this - at this point, may be best to start a new thread and keep this one focused on the followup for the character encoding.

Imported MyBB database character encoding issue

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Paul_King (Paul King) 13.Март.2020 09:56:25 9

Hi, a new thread with an example is here

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