Error message when trying to post arabic characters : Please enter a message with at least 1 character

[Abdarrahmaan]

Thanks


Only when arabic characters were typed in a post (even when there were many other french/latin characters)... and sometimes (when I changed the encodings) quite the opposite...

[Abdarrahmaan]

Thanks
It still didn't work so I chose to restore an older version and not to upgrade.

It's like vb 5.2.4 is converting the data in latin1 at some step even when we tell it to use utf8...

[Abdarrahmaan]

I checked that the content of the tables is in utf8, using this query :

SELECT CONVERT(CONVERT(username USING BINARY) USING latin1) AS latin1,
CONVERT(CONVERT(username USING BINARY)

...

[Abdarrahmaan]

Thank you but I can't do that though.

[Abdarrahmaan]

Thanks

I did it, and it works for the new posts I create, but the french characters in old posts, old forums' and topics' names and in other places like the menu of the admin panel do not...

[Abdarrahmaan]

We find that the error is caused by the 5.2.4 upgrade.

And that changing the charset to utf8 may solve the problem, but I don't know how to do that without breaking the forum or it resulting...

[Abdarrahmaan]

We tried several things, to no avail :

- the forum's HTLM charset is ISO-8859-1, like in the database
- creating a new style did not resolve the issue
- nor restoring the parameters,...

[Abdarrahmaan]

Hello,

Our forum is in french but we often post arabic characters. Our database tables always used latin1_swedish and we never had this problem till the last time we restored the database...