Charset issue on user profile/about page

[plongeur.com]

Hello all,

For some curious reason i have (what looks like) a charset issue on the user profile/about page. My custom attributes titles, users answers and the translated items are displayed with a � instead of the é or ù... (yes this is a french site)
The very same title are well displayed on the register page for instance.

Any help would be much appriciated.

[Wayne Luke]

Those symbols mean you're using characters not in your specified character set. Make sure your language is set to UTF-8 in the AdminCP under Languages & Phrases -> Language Manager.

[plongeur.com]

My current charset is iso-8859-1 (latin1).
If a change it to utf-8 i have ? symbols all over almost every page (including the profile/about page).

I can't figure out why only this page would have a different charset... the same expressions and translation are displayed without issue on other pages...

[Wayne Luke]

ISO-8859-1 is the incorrect character set for your language. It is really only appropriate for English with today's modern browsers. The "?" symbols are characters that do not exist in the character set or are encoded incorrectly. The browser can't render them.

What locale do you have for your language? Does the server support that locale?

What happens if you uncomment this line in your config.php?
//$config['Mysqli']['charset'] = 'utf8';

Remove the // to uncomment it.

[glennrocksvb]

When you reload the About page, does the issue still occur? I asked because if you load the Profile page then click the About tab, the content is loaded via AJAX. But when you reload the About page itself, the content is loaded normally.

[plongeur.com]

When I refresh the page I end up on the "activity"tab again, so I have the same issue.

Regarding the charset, the forum migrated several versions drop 2003 so I guess it can explain it.
I could probably easily go to Latin 15 but utf8 migration seems much more complicated.

Again, the odd thing is that this issue is only present with this tab, same content everywhere else is just fine.

[plongeur.com]

ISO-8859-1 is the incorrect character set for your language. It is really only appropriate for English with today's modern browsers. The "?" symbols are characters that do not exist in the character set or are encoded incorrectly. The browser can't render them.

What locale do you have for your language? Does the server support that locale?

What happens if you uncomment this line in your config.php?
//$config['Mysqli']['charset'] = 'utf8';

Remove the // to uncomment it.

Thanks for your help, i actually do not have this line in the vbulletin root config.php nor in the /core/includes/config.php.
Am i looking in the wrong place ? ar maybe it was already removed before.

[glennrocksvb]

When I refresh the page I end up on the "activity"tab again, so I have the same issue.

When you switch to About tab, the URL should automatically change to /about and then when you reload the page, it should show the About tab not the default Activity tab.

Try it here on this site.

[Wayne Luke]

Thanks for your help, i actually do not have this line in the vbulletin root config.php nor in the /core/includes/config.php.
Am i looking in the wrong place ? ar maybe it was already removed before.

You're using the vBulletin 5 /core/includes/config.php and not an old version 3 copy of the file correct?

[plongeur.com]

You're using the vBulletin 5 /core/includes/config.php and not an old version 3 copy of the file correct?

I confirm i have the right file version. Maybe the line was removed during the install (i did not install it myself...bad me )

[plongeur.com]

When you switch to About tab, the URL should automatically change to /about and then when you reload the page, it should show the About tab not the default Activity tab.

Try it here on this site.

I guess i do not have the standard behaviour, i get redirected to the activity page every time i hit F5. Maybe i should have a look at the .htaccess about that...

[glennrocksvb]

But is the url pointing to /about when you reload the page?