IPB 1.3 > vB 3.0.3

[Heo13]

I've desided to move from IPB 1.3 to vBulletin. The thing is when i start importing users, the usernames in russian import in non-cyrillic characters. how can i fix that? :(

[Steve Machol]

Can you give an example?

[Heo13]

Exactly like this:

28.26% :: Àë¸íà

[Steve Machol]

This one is beyond me. I'm afraid you may need to wait for Jerry to help you with this. Sorry.

[Heo13]

OK, thanks, i will wait for him

[Heo13]

Anyway, i think i figured a way to do the convertion. I converted from IPB to vB 2.3.5 first, and it converted everything correctly. And now i'll try to convert from 2.3.5 to vB3.0.3 and everything should be ok! :)

[Heo13]

Accually the upgrade from vb2 to vb3 didn't give any positive results. The rusian language is all messed up in vB3 :( but in vB2 everything was ok...

is there a way to solve this?

[Jerry]

The only time the post content is altered is when its parsed for HTML, to remove that. Its line 135 of file systems/ipb/008.php.


$try->set_value('nonmandatory', 'pagetext', $this->html_2_bb($this->ipb_html($post['post'])));


Change it to :


$try->set_value('nonmandatory', 'pagetext', $post['post']);


Then the exact content of the post is imported, though it might contain HTML.

[James Kojiro]

Hummm. Would that also work for Japanese characters?

[Jerry]

Well all it does it remove the parsing of the content, so what's in the source will be in the target, exactly.

[James Kojiro]

That is very good!

[Heo13]

Thanks, everything worked

[Jerry]

Thanks, everything worked

Hoora :D