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Hello,
I have moved my forum to another webhost.
The problem is that: after finish moving to the new webhost, the Non-english language is converted to abnormal symbols like this:

منتدي يعني بالأساءة لحقوق الانسان و التعدي على الحريات في العالم العربي و دول العالم الثالث

the above example is an arabic words,,,

any solution?

Thanks

This is due to encoding mismatch. You should have used the same encoding as your old host or converted the old database to utf-8 before importing it in the new host. Do you still have access to the old database?

hello,
my new webhost had been moved my database from my old webhost to this new host..
and yes, i still have access to the old database..

any solution?

If you still have access to the old database then before you export it you need to convert it to utf, then it can be imported to the new host.

hello,
ok , i have convert them to UTF through mybb admin panel , is that what you mean?
do i need to tell the new host anything before they import the database?

thanks