I've been hanging around here for a while now, and I've seen a lot of mentioning with UTF-8 having problems in VB4. My question is, what exactly is wrong with it? If UTF-8 (and thus posting in multiple languages) doesn't work correctly there's no way I can run the site I want to.
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Obviously they are working on it. I doubt it's of any priority for vBulletin though.
Read this thread: http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showt...rade-from-3-8x
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Originally posted by kyrgyz View PostObviously they are working on it. I doubt it's of any priority for vBulletin though.
Read this thread: http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showt...rade-from-3-8x
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Sorry... it's in Licensed Customer Feedback forum. I'll just quote below what then General Manager said about UTF-8 support.
Originally posted by Ray MorganOriginally posted by feldon23We've been told repeatedly that it is "tricky" or "impossible" to convert a database to UTF-8. Obviously this is going to have to change...
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I think you misunderstood the UTF-8 problem they are talking about, it's all about storing the data in the database meaning it have nothing to do with displaying non English characters, in other words you can use vb even vb4 in any language you want with no problems, i currently use vb4 in my Arabic site www.farrfasha.com with no problems.
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Originally posted by unleash View PostI think you misunderstood the UTF-8 problem they are talking about, it's all about storing the data in the database meaning it have nothing to do with displaying non English characters, in other words you can use vb even vb4 in any language you want with no problems, i currently use vb4 in my Arabic site www.farrfasha.com with no problems.
Well, this is probably not correct
If you activate CMS in your forum , you will possibly see that URLs can not be displayed in Arabic .Last edited by sami simo; Wed 13 Jan '10, 6:23pm.
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I'm glad someone finally explained exactly what the problem is. If there is a way to turn off non-romanized letters (Japanese, Chinese, Korean, etc) for the URLs then I shouldn't have any problems at all. I'm going to us CMS, so are there options to bypass having those characters show up in the URL?
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Originally posted by Webbstre View PostI'm glad someone finally explained exactly what the problem is. If there is a way to turn off non-romanized letters (Japanese, Chinese, Korean, etc) for the URLs then I shouldn't have any problems at all. I'm going to us CMS, so are there options to bypass having those characters show up in the URL?
if you are not interested in permalinks then you dont have anything to worry about
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Originally posted by Webbstre View PostAs long as I can choose my own permalinks (Date and a keyword is best) then I'll have what I need. I assume that is possible, since even Wordpress can do it?
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showthread.php?t=12345 - Basic Friendly URLs:
showthread.php?1234-Thread-Title - Advanced Friendly URLs:
showthread.php/1234-Thread-Title - Mod Rewrite Friendly URLs:
threads/1234-Thread-Title
this feature is really new to vb and was implemented just in this version, to have much much more control you will need to use an addon called VBSeo a paid addon, i think by time free ones will show up for vb4
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URL-rewriting is not the only issue when it comes to supporting UTF-8. Other issues, related to string operations, still remain. For instance, vB's core uses outdated functions for counting a string's number of characters, assuming that every character is one byte long.
Originally posted by kyrgyz View PostObviously they are working on it. I doubt it's of any priority for vBulletin though.
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