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DemonOuterverse
Sun 18th Dec '05, 10:00pm
I've recent Imported my phpBB over to vBulletin, but for some reason certian UTF characters have gotten totally garbled.

Example:
"Somewhat ironic"
became
“Somewhat ironic…â€ÂÂ

Is there something I can do (other than update 5000+ posts manually) to correct it?

Steve Machol
Mon 19th Dec '05, 3:11am
<Moved to Impoort forum>

Since this is the second report I've seen of this problem, please report it in the 3.5 Bug Tracker:

http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=99

DemonOuterverse
Mon 19th Dec '05, 7:13pm
I'm not sure that it's a "bug" with vBulletin or Impex.

To me it really it seemed to a problem with MySQL Collation in phpMyAdmin. In fact, I have the same garbled character problem on the phpBB board I set up just to convert over to vBulletin.

More I was trying to find out if someone had the same problem and knew a fix for it other than manually editing 5000+ posts. The bad thing is, I went live with the vBulletin before catching it and more posts have been made.