Japanese UTF-8 Text Wrapping Error

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Many people want to have their own iPhone app to promote their website. For example, you can buy a generic RSS reader, or you can download the Yahoo, CNN, and MSNBC apps separately....

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I am seeing this "quick reply" behavior with IE8 in vBulletin 3.6.x as well.

Does anyone know why this is happening or what the solution is?

The original poster...

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Thank you for everything, John, from someone who remembers what running a forum was like before vB.

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Has anyone from vBulletin had a chance to review this problem?

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This post was from 2004, but the UTF-8 word wrap problem is the same in 3.6.3. Did anyone ever find a solution?...

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When using Japanese (or other double byte characters) characters, in UTF-8 mode only, the text wrap setting (Number of Characters Before Wrapping Text) is breaking the characters when it tries to add...

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Not UTF-8 Encoded:

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Korean:
한한한한한한한한한한한한한한한한한한한한한한한한한한한한한한 한한한한한한한한한한한한한한한한한한한한한한한한한한한한한한 한�...

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Chinese:
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Russian:
ИнтернетеИнтернетеИнтернетеИнтернетеИнтернете ИнтернетеИнтернетеИнтернетеИнтернетеИнтернете И�...

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Number of Characters Before Wrapping Text

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Trying more characters...

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For anyone else having this problem, vBulletin support has explained the issue and it is not a bug, but a feature. The feature causing the problem for some Japanese characters is the "Blank Character...

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Thank you, vBulletin support! I have been trying everything to get this resolved and it was something so simple.

After removing 160 and 173 from the Blank Character Stripper in Censorship...

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It is happening on this forum (vBulletin.com), which is runniing 3.6.3 and also on a 3.6.2 install that I have tested. I'm not sure about other versions. I have reported it as a bug here:
http:...

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Thank you for the quick reply, I have reported it as a bug. ...

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There is an issue - which can be reproduced on the vBulletin.com forum - where Japanese character are corrupted in vBulletin 3.6.

Please take a look at this test thread:
http://www...

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Hiragana "da ne" with vBulletin language set to UTF-8:

�*�*

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Hiragana "da ne" with vBulletin language set to English:

だね

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vBulletin language set to UTF-8 (same text):

へほはへ
�*にはの
ぱぽぷぴ
させそす
がげごぎ
じゃじゅじょ
むまもみ