Problem with some words with accens

[pepito69]

Hi,
You said:
vBET supports all encodings, but it is best if your forum uses utf-8 encoding, otherwise for each translation vBET have to re-encode whole page and do other additional tricks (also special characters takes much more place in DB cause those are changed to &#CODE; notation). If you are already running forum, there is no easy way to switch encoding (still it exists), but if you are creating new one then please consider to run it on utf-8 encoding which is designed to multilingual support.

I think that converting my forum to UTF-8 will solve the problem. Do you Know any way to do that? I read that someone who did it solved the problem.

[kamilkurczak]

I found this article: Converting vBulletin to UTF-8

[kamilkurczak]

hello pepito69, what about this threads?

[pepito69]

I think that of of the last things to try is converting the forum to UTF-8 cause many words cannot be translated due errors in accens and special symbols like: ñ
Michal once said it:
Change encoding of whole vB forum - how to? - vBulletin.org Forum

I can not do this test now cause i have to backup and test it in special conditions and i don't have time enough maybe in august.

[kamilkurczak]

ok, I understand. You answer if you do it

[mario06]

make sure you backup your forum because if its big you might encounter custom bbcode errors that "most of the time" can be fixed with the tools.php

EDIT
You might have problems with your email notifications and other little things that must be fixed.

[vBET]

I think that converting my forum to UTF-8 will solve the problem. Do you Know any way to do that? I read that someone who did it solved the problem.

This is not necessary - vBET fully supports not UTF-8 forums. Personally I'm owner of one not UTF-8 forum (in Polish) which is working fine. So the issue is on other level. Changing encoding can help in your case - but it is not necessary to run vBET. We advice to look for issue source or even let us in on your forum to check it. Because if it is some issue on other level it is advised to heal the wound - not only put a bandage

[pepito69]

Thanks Michal, i'm glad to see you here again.

Before converting anything i will try different things but know i have a new problem with the template, in main forums pages is bad layed and i didn't anything new.
Thanks a lot Mario06 for your advices.

[mario06]

vBET fully supports all charsets but with the UTF8 charset there's less queries

[vBET]

Even not less queries. Queries number is same, but witch utf-8 CPU usage is lower, because we do not need to reencode results, so also results are faster.