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Hi,

I am using MyBB 1.2 with mysql 5.0.24a / PHP 5.1.6-pl2-gentoo on a gentoo system. I found that if I copy a long Chinese article into clipboard from a web page and then paste in posting editbox to post, I get some garbled code (i.e., garbage code) in every 50-60 chinese characters. The content in editbox looks OK but garbled codes appear in forum's posts.

I use the exactly same clipboard content and paste in IPB 1.31's editbox and get perfect copy: no garbled codes at all in the final posts. Both IPB 1.31 and MyBB 1.2 use UTF-8 as default text encoding (browsers automatically select 'Unicode (UTF-8)" in "View --> Character Encoding").

Any ideas why this happens?

Thx.

I don't know if this is the problem, but try change your encoding in your browser. View > Encoding > Big5 if it is traditional chinese.
If it's simplified chinese, you would usually use GB2312

Jeff Wrote:I don't know if this is the problem, but try change your encoding in your browser. View > Encoding > Big5 if it is traditional chinese.
If it's simplified chinese, you would usually use GB2312

Browser will convert gb2312 to UTF-8 (according to current page's charset setting).

Here's a example:

This is what I posted:

（1）
　　我的家在牯岭街，我在这里工作和居住。我们这里以前出过事，我们的好兄弟茅武，在这里刺死了他的马子。
　　后来，茅武的一个同级同学从牯岭街出去。杨德昌同学在美国学电脑，攻硕士。因为一个偶然的原因改行拍上了电影。1991年，杨同学把我们牯岭街的一些故事搬上了银幕。

　　我看过这出名为《牯岭街少年杀人事件》的电影。影片接近四个小时，很多人说闷。我看了之后也胸闷，由于不足为外人道的原因。
　　从淡江师范毕业之后，我回到我的牯岭街家乡，成为建国中学的一个青年教育工作者。杨同学的这部电影，取景其实是在淡江中学。

Here's what I got in post:

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（1）
　　我的家在牯岭街，我在这里工作和居住。我们这里以前出过事，我们的好兄弟茅武，在这里刺死了他的马子。
　　后来，茅武的一个同级同学从牯岭街出去。杨德昌同学在美国学电脑，攻硕士。因为一个偶然的原因改行拍上了电影。1991年，杨同学把我们牯岭街的一些故事搬上了银幕。

　　我看过这出名为《牯岭街少年杀人事件》的电影。影片接近四个小时，很多人说闷。我看了之后也胸闷，由于不足为外人道的原因。
　　从淡江师范毕业之后，我回到我的牯岭街家乡，成为建国中学的一个青年教育工作者。杨同学的这部电影，取景其实是在淡江中学。
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I'm reading the message perfectly with the exception of only a few question marks. I'm viewing it as UTF-8. GB charset doesn't work, that probably means it's encoded in UTF-8. But I'm on a Chinese computer.

You want to send a screenshot of the results you are viewing?

The funny thing is: if I click on [Edit] of the post above, in the editbox the text looks OK (no garbled code), both in "Quick Edit" and "Full Edit".

Jeff Wrote:I'm reading the message perfectly with the exception of only a few question marks. I'm viewing it as UTF-8. GB charset doesn't work, that probably means it's encoded in UTF-8. But I'm on a Chinese computer.

You want to send a screenshot of the results you are viewing?

The '??' are the garbled codes... I added a screenshot

Another screenshot, green for good, red for garbled codes:

This is the original web page I copied the Chinese text, if it helps:

http://www.bonbonel.org/club/lofiversion...48659.html

Well, the original version you copied from was encoded in GB18030, that could be a problem.