ImpEx import Yabb 2.1 Devanagri Fonts

[niranjan_sarkar]

Hi ,
I recently purchased vBulletin. I already run a board using Yabb 2.2.1. The forum contains a lot of Devanagri (Hindi) fonts. The import process (into the testvb forum) worked fine, but the font conversion was not taken care off. On import it shows the devanagri characters something like [ch2340] (http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?t=766). This is the way the characters are stored in Yabb internally in the files.

My question is, Is it possible for the ImpEx converter to convert the Devanagri Fonts correctly? If not, is there "any" way it can be done?

Thanks,

[niranjan_sarkar]

Got response from support, it is not supported nor done by any body! Strange.

Would have to figure out some way myself now.

[niranjan_sarkar]

Well I have managed to pull it through!
Written a small Java program (I don't code in PHP or Perl) that converts those nasty [ch2345] to proper Unicode characters. Then used the Impex to import the Unicode text files.

Works as smooth as silk, once you change the HTML Character Set to utf-8, in the language manager in admincp.

Wonder why this cannot be incorporated in the standard Impex utility and save the users from the trouble!! :confused:

[Jerry]

ImpEx itself can be set to use UTF-8 and as long as the table char types are set up it will import like for like.

Though conversion of specific types on the fly isn't in the scope of ImpEx.