Certain characters showed up as "?"

[peteqlee]

Hi, there

I have just upgraded to vb 2.2.6 from 2.2.1. Everything went fine but since the upgrade, certain characters in the post showed up as "?" only. When I tried to edit the post it showed up with no problem.

I am running the forum for thai people, so I guess it maybe the problem for 2 byte characters? If so, does anybody know how to fix this problem?

[Fusion]

Yes, the character-set is definately worth looking into. If that's not it, the font used when displaying the threads may be incapable of properly presenting the characters.

[Mike Sullivan]

Remove these two lines in functions.php:

  $text = str_replace(chr(173), '_', $text);
  $text = str_replace(chr(160), '_', $text);

[Fusion]

Originally posted by Ed Sullivan
Remove these two lines in functions.php:

  $text = str_replace(chr(173), '_', $text);
  $text = str_replace(chr(160), '_', $text);

Because? Was the upgrade-script(s) faulty, Mike?

[Mike Sullivan]

No, because he's using a double-byte language. Those are empty characters--but not spaces--in an ASCII character set.

[Fusion]

Right. I'm assuming this is something vB3 will take into consideration (ref. language-packs).

[peteqlee]

Originally posted by Ed Sullivan
Remove these two lines in functions.php:

  $text = str_replace(chr(173), '_', $text);
  $text = str_replace(chr(160), '_', $text);

Thanks for reply.

However, I have removed those lines from functions.php in admin folder but no help. It still showed up as "?".

Somebody in my forum said "character showed up as '_'(0x5F) when 0xAD needs to be displayed and there are 25 charcters using 0xAD" Sadly, I don't know what that means.

Any ideas?