Need some quick help identifying the new forum problem with character sets

[mouser]

there is some thread somewhere recently about character sets that used to work not working now on the forum but i can't find it.
can someone point me to it and/or help me reproduce the problem so i can tell when we fix it?
i.e. how do i try to make a post with some characters that used to work and now dont.

[skwire]

Wasn't it fenixproductions mentioning that Cyrillic wasn't working in his signature?

[Deozaan]

Is it the JottiQ thread?

https://www.donation....msg227565#msg227565

[mouser]

i think skwire found the thread i was looking for:
https://www.donation...ndex.php?topic=25316

[Deozaan]

Here's another one that may be useful to diagnose problem characters:

https://www.donation....msg233767#msg233767

[cyberdiva]

Here's another one that may be useful to diagnose problem characters:

https://www.donation....msg233767#msg233767

-Deozaan (January 26, 2011, 01:10 AM)

Deozaan, you beat me to it.  I was about to cite the same thing, which JohnK very kindly posted at my request yesterday.  (I'm assuming that all the ? is unicode that isn't being handled well by the DC forum.)

[Renegade]

Not sure if this helps diagnose, but...

• SMF
• YaBB SE

• SMF
• YaBB SE

• SMF
• YaBB SE

• SMF
• YaBB SE

• SMF
• YaBB SE

That's just pure BBcode from here:

http://docs.simplema...ndex.php?topic=696.0

It displays properly.

i.e. Not a server issue.

The issue sounds either PHP or DB related.

[mouser]

Does anyone remember any older posts that were messed up when we first moved servers in december, but which are ok now?

[worstje]

I remember editing some posts in the JottiQ topic causing tons of question marks to appear at places with multiple spaces. Let's see if I can reproduce it.

Blah.
    Blah Blah.
    Blah    Blah          Blah.
Blah     Blahblah blah!          
                       More blahblah!
            Woooo.

Did a ton of edits on this post just now and I can't seem to reproduce it. But it was a bug that happened after you first fixed stuff, so it might well be you need to get around to fixing before I can trigger it again.