Super Moderator merge topic error

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Hello,

On our forum www.tenisdemasa.ro/forum when a super moderator tried to merge two topics, each with one message, everything was lost except one empty topic, only the subject remaining,...

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I could not let the site running with those errors, users complained and the site was unusable.
Our site is hosting the announcements for Amateur Table tennis tournaments so we must be live and...

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Sorry, my mistake, I wanted to write utf8mb4_general_ci.
My DB is converted with DBTools to utf8mb4_general_ci....

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I had random white pages on the forum so I switched back to PHP 7.
Now everything works fine.

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I manage to make the replace using tables "text" and "node".
Thank you for your help. I hope I will not have troubles in the future, since now the DB is utf8_general_ci collation...

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Hello,

On my 5.6.5 forum with PHP 8 I have random white pages .
I turned on the error display for PHP by adding this line in config.php:

 ini_set("display_errors", 

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Thank you for your help. Unfortunately the result is "?" not the HTML encoder.
See an example of return result from DB:

Turneu B+ "WTTD - AmaTur Rom?nia", Constanța 

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In order to solve the issue I used DB Tools to update tables to INNODB and utf8mb4.
The conversion was somehow successfully , now we can use any character.

Anyway, for the Old posts...

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Hello, I notice that users that have English language set on the forum are not affected . Can I change the language to English for all users by a MySql (PHPMyAdmin) query?
I don't want to delete...

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I changed locale to ro_RO.utf8 after I spoke with my Hosting provider.
Unfortunately I have another kind of wrong character (missing characters). If I want to correct them manually then the error...

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the line is commented:
// $config['Mysqli']['charset'] = 'utf8';

My forum DB has both UTF-8 and latin tables:...

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Could this be related to the DB that have latin collation instead of UTF-8?
See attached images for the settings in Language and the error.

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The error was not on one topic but everywhere there was characters like "ăâîșț". Sometime the same link was working and sometime not working (redirect to forum index).

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It is working with the node URL.

I checked "Yes" all three menus:

- Route Channels and Conversations by Node ID
- Always use Forum URL as Base Path
- Use...

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For example link :
https://www.tenisdemasa.ro/forum/for...-ilfov-giurgiu...