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  • SilverBoy
    Senior Member
    • Mar 2001
    • 178
    • 4.2.x

    Emojis Display

    Hi

    I created a new test forum with collation and charset utf8mb4, but when I tried to add emojis to a post I get just ???
    How I can solve this issue?

    My forum version is 4.2.5.
    Thanks in advance.
    One of highly customized vBCMS used for news site.
    www.manshor.net
  • Mark.B
    vBulletin Support
    • Feb 2004
    • 24286
    • 6.0.X

    #2
    I don't believe this is currently possible in vBulletin 4. It can be made to work to a degree in vBulletin 5 though.
    MARK.B
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    • SilverBoy
      Senior Member
      • Mar 2001
      • 178
      • 4.2.x

      #3
      Why it is not possible? I installed in the same server WordPress with the same collation and charset and emojis displays without any problem!!
      One of highly customized vBCMS used for news site.
      www.manshor.net

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      • djbaxter
        Senior Member
        • Aug 2006
        • 1418
        • 4.2.5

        #4
        WordPress is not vBulletin. Totally different software.
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        Specializing in Small Businesses and vBulletin/Xenforo Forums

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        • SilverBoy
          Senior Member
          • Mar 2001
          • 178
          • 4.2.x

          #5
          I know they are different, the point here is that, I have 2 databases with the same collations and charset, so I'm confused why I can display emojis in one and can't in another!!!
          BTW, the question here, how we can let vbulletin 4 display emojis? what are the barriers!!
          Thanks.
          One of highly customized vBCMS used for news site.
          www.manshor.net

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          • Mark.B
            vBulletin Support
            • Feb 2004
            • 24286
            • 6.0.X

            #6
            You can try setting the language in the admincp to utf8mb4. I don't have a setup I can test this on though.
            MARK.B
            vBulletin Support
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            My Unofficial vBulletin 6.0.0 Demo: https://www.talknewsuk.com
            My Unofficial vBulletin Cloud Demo: https://www.adminammo.com

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            • SilverBoy
              Senior Member
              • Mar 2001
              • 178
              • 4.2.x

              #7
              Thank you Mark, you gave me a brilliant tip

              Now I have full support for emojis in my test forum with clear display of Arabic text phpmyadmin script.

              If some one ask about how, here we go ..
              1- create new database with utf8mb4 collation.
              2- install fresh forum over the new database (I get some errors regarding field sizes I wish it will not be an issue in my primary server).
              3- in language setting set charset to UTF-8.
              4- in config file search for this line
              PHP Code:
               // $config['Mysqli']['charset'] = 'utf8'; 
              remove the slashes and change utf8 to utf8mb4.
              5- enjoy your forum with full support of emojis.

              Now I need good step by step guide to convert my big forum database from latin1_swedesh collation to utf8mb4 without lose in data (the main language was Arabic with charser windows-1256).
              One of highly customized vBCMS used for news site.
              www.manshor.net

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