We got several unresolved issues with vBulletin 5.4.5 (mostly issues related to special characters like åäö in the swedish language) and the support here have suggested us to convert the MySQL database from latin1 to utf8mb4. The problem is that the conversation is a very complex task to do.
Is vBulletin 5.4.5 compatible with the latin1 collation or not? We have used vBulletin from 2002 until now and it have worked very good with latin1 until the latest upgrade from 4.2.5 to 5.4.4/5.4.5. Yes, i know that version 5.4.5 is a complete new version and works in different ways than ver 3.x and 4.x. But, shouldnt it work in ver 5.x also?
Nothing in the online manual https://www.vbulletin.com/en/manual/ states that latin1 is not supported. It does not suggest utf8 or utf8mb4 either. Not in the file vb5readme.html included in the downloaded package either. The upgrade script did not warn for this either…. I have seen that fresh installs warns and informs about it but i saw that after our production upgrade.
Do we really really really need to convert the database from latin1 to utf8mb4 to get everything working? If so, how can we do it in easiest possible way? Is there upgrade scripts for this available?
Is vBulletin 5.4.5 compatible with the latin1 collation or not? We have used vBulletin from 2002 until now and it have worked very good with latin1 until the latest upgrade from 4.2.5 to 5.4.4/5.4.5. Yes, i know that version 5.4.5 is a complete new version and works in different ways than ver 3.x and 4.x. But, shouldnt it work in ver 5.x also?
Nothing in the online manual https://www.vbulletin.com/en/manual/ states that latin1 is not supported. It does not suggest utf8 or utf8mb4 either. Not in the file vb5readme.html included in the downloaded package either. The upgrade script did not warn for this either…. I have seen that fresh installs warns and informs about it but i saw that after our production upgrade.
Do we really really really need to convert the database from latin1 to utf8mb4 to get everything working? If so, how can we do it in easiest possible way? Is there upgrade scripts for this available?
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