[Bug / Issue] Special characters dissapear

[RoelVB]

Hi,

Since we've migrated vBulletin5 from Ubuntu to Windows we're experiencing issues with special characters like é, ö, è, €, etc.
On Ubuntu we were running Apache and PHP7.0 (I think). On the Windows machine we're running IIS10, PHP7.2 and probably a slightly newer MySQL version.

Hopefully one could help me to solve this.

[Wayne Luke]

Go to Language Manager in the AdminCP. Languages & Phrases -> Language Manager.

Edit your Language by clicking on the [Edit Settings] link.
Change the HTML Character Set from whatever it is currently to UTF-8 (exactly like this).
Save the page.

If that doesn't fix it, then make sure that your MySQL databases have the exact same collation and character sets defined.

[RoelVB]

Hi Wayne,

Unfortunately this doesn't help.
Strange thing is. In privatemessages the characters dissapear. In forum posts they're replaces by a question mark.

[RoelVB]

Solved this.
Nowadays MySQL used utf8md4 als default connection collation. After changing this to utf8 the problem was resolved.