vB does not recognize usernames with special chars as unique after conversion to UTF-8

[raakinh]

They were in Latin1 earlier, which is a subset of UTF8 (correct me if I am wrong).

How do we convert the contents, if needed?

[raakinh]

We have recently converted the character set to UTF-8 on our forum, running vB4.2.2

These are the steps that we followed:

• Uncommented the UTF-8 line in config.php
• Changed the char set

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[raakinh]

Channel Moderators are not able to view the Reports in vB 5.1.0. How do we set the permissions for viewing the reports?

[raakinh]

Is it only me or is merge posts option not working properly in vB 5.1.0? Neither our admins nor our moderators are able to merge posts. It gives a no_permission error message.

I have checked...

[raakinh]

Thank you for the reply. Do we have any alternate for that? We want to know how many human beings are actually visiting our forum, not the bots....

[raakinh]

Are you able to use the 'Publish on Facebook' feature? Do you know how to configure it?

[raakinh]

Sorry for the double thread. It gave an error while posting and when I clicked on post once again, the thread appeared twice

[raakinh]

It says in the manual https://www.vbulletin.com/docs/html/...s_group_online that we can enable the spiders display on who's online by going to vBulletin Options > vBulletin Options > Who's...

[raakinh]

It says on this page https://www.vbulletin.com/docs/html/...s_group_online that we can enable the spiders display on who's online by going to vBulletin Options > vBulletin Options > Who's...

[raakinh]

We are able to Log in using facebook and connect the vBulletin account with the facebook account in vB5.1.0 but when I tried to publish something on facebook, it just posts on the forum. It does not get...

[raakinh]

How do we set the permissions for the flag reports? Our Moderators and Super Moderators are unable to access the flag reports. It shows up in their notifications that they have flagged reports but when...

[raakinh]

Tried clearing the system cache before making the changes and it worked.

I have set the permission for "Can view channel" and "Can always view channel" to No but still...

[raakinh]

I just tried to edit the channel permissions for another usergroup and got the same error message.

[raakinh]

No, it wasn't from Access Masks, it was using Forum permissions. But now there are these new settings in Channel permissions which were not there in vB4:
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[raakinh]

We had created join-able usergroups and only the members of those usergroups were able to view those private sections. But after the upgrade to vB 5.1.0, the Super Moderators and Administrators are able...