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Donald J. Trump
✔@realDonaldTrump





President Bashar al-Assad of Syria must not recklessly attack Idlib Province. The Russians and Iranians would be making a grave humanitarian mistake to take part in this potential human tragedy. Hundreds of thousands of people could be killed. Don’t let that happen!
3:20 PM - Sep 3, 2018

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as suggested earlier, you can try removing extra characters like ✔ by using SQL query like below

UPDATE `mybb_posts` SET `message` = REPLACE (`message`, '✔', '') WHERE `message` LIKE '%âœ\”%';

[common sql queries guidance]

PM sent

The âœ things look like an encoding issue. As far as I can tell, the merge system itself has issues with encodings, if the tables/columns of the to be merged board have a different encoding other than the target MyBB board's.

The [h... and [indent] things should be circumstances that the merge system's parser can't handle. Relevant codes should be added into the parser's class: https://github.com/mybb/merge-system/blo...parser.php

One admina wanted to change her password and whne I went there to her profile this is the message I get there.
Warning [2] A non-numeric value encountered - Line: 1013 - File: admin/modules/user/users.php PHP 7.1.28-1+0~20190412071042.17+jessie~1.gbpbe9b36 (Linux)
File Line Function
/admin/modules/user/users.php 1013 errorHandler->error
/admin/index.php 597 require
Warning [2] A non-numeric value encountered - Line: 1014 - File: admin/modules/user/users.php PHP 7.1.28-1+0~20190412071042.17+jessie~1.gbpbe9b36 (Linux)
File Line Function
/admin/modules/user/users.php 1014 errorHandler->error
/admin/index.php 597

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And there are these on some of the posts
Please see attached images as they format properly when I paste here and you won't know what is happening.        

some of the BBcodes from vBulletin cannot be converted easily.
WYSWYG editor used for vBulletin is much different from MyBB's editor.

tags like [font=&amp] can be removed but [/font] remains ...
removing [/font] disturbs existing fonts formatted content ..

Also
converted MyBB forum needs to be upgraded to a recent version [1.8.22]

[MyBB upgrading guidance - not up to date - still useful ..]

(2020-01-25, 03:39 AM).m. Wrote: some of the BBcodes from vBulletin cannot be converted easily.
WYSWYG editor used for vBulletin is much different from MyBB's editor. 

tags like [font=&][/font][font=&] can be removed but [/color][/font][color=#EF2929] remains ...
removing [/font] disturbs existing fonts formatted content .. 

Also
converted MyBB forum needs to be upgraded to a recent version [1.8.22]

[MyBB upgrading guidance - not up to date - still useful ..]

I will update the software.

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(2020-01-25, 04:04 AM)spacecadet Wrote:

(2020-01-25, 03:39 AM).m. Wrote: some of the BBcodes from vBulletin cannot be converted easily.
WYSWYG editor used for vBulletin is much different from MyBB's editor. 

tags like [font=&][/font][font=&] can be removed but [/color][/font][color=#EF2929] remains ...
removing [/font] disturbs existing fonts formatted content .. 

Also
converted MyBB forum needs to be upgraded to a recent version [1.8.22]

[MyBB upgrading guidance - not up to date - still useful ..]

I will update the software.

I updated the software and it looks like this. See attachment 1[

And I have this message about the coding, See attachment 2        

broken style was due to adding security layered protocol https & un-matching site settings
[see related guidance]

reg. utf-8 conversion , it was not done for upgraded data table - it is NOT an issue !