[Forum] Can't quote or edit posts containing certain characters

[BibleWheel]

Posts with characters like these quotes “ ” break the CKEditor so it shows up blank when you try to "Reply With Quote" or edit a post. I've had this problem for a couple weeks. I've done all the basic troubleshooting of turning off plugins, uploading fresh files, using default style, etc. I successfully upgraded to 4.2 last week, but the problem remains. Before the upgrade I backed up by db and imported it to my localhost and don't have this problem there. Any help would be appreciated. My site is www.biblewheel.com. It's being served up with IIS 6.0 on a Windows 2003 server. My PHP is 5.4.2 and PCRE is 8.12.

[Wayne Luke]

What is the character set and collation of your database and language within vBulletin.

The problem is some double-byte characters institute basically what is an "End of File" marker and cause problems like this.

[BibleWheel]

What is the character set and collation of your database and language within vBulletin.

The problem is some double-byte characters institute basically what is an "End of File" marker and cause problems like this.

character_set_database = latin1

collation_database = latin1_swedish_ci

Default language is set to English and the HTML Character Set = ISO-8859-1

[BibleWheel]

SOLVED: Thunderbird had the same problem and posted the fix here.