another issue encountered in 1.2.1 regarding Hebrew

[Dennis Tsang]

Well if it's a limitation of how the PHP functions works, we can't really fix that.

[NSH]

another thing, hoping to be the last resort, in 1.1.8 i picked 'windows-1255'
and it shows hebrew well enough
can i choose the encoding in 1,2,1 as well?

[Ryan Gordon]

You can try

[NSH]

look what happened......


http://kokonsh.orgfree.com/index.php

[windows-1255]

desperation

[Dennis Tsang]

Have you tried asking your webhost to configure PHP with multibyte support?

[NSH]

it's free hosting so it's kinda hard..

[Chris Boulton]

Ask them, because otherwise we can't do anything about it.

The reason you can't change your encoding is because all of your data is encoded with whatever you're currently using. You should have stuck to using the character encoding set you were using with 1.1.8 before you upgraded to 1.2 and you wouldn't have any problems.

[NSH]

i did not upgrade to 1.2 from any previous version,
just installed a new forum [1.2] for testing purposes.
[btw i still use 1.1.8]

any way, i consider converting :

mybb-to-PHPbb
then, back,
PHPbb-to-mybb

will that work?

[Dennis Tsang]

any way, i consider converting :

mybb-to-PHPbb
then, back,
PHPbb-to-mybb

will that work?

What is your intention?

[NSH]

making it work by NOT being "stuck to using the character encoding set you were using with 1.1.8"
like Chris said... i think of bypassing.. u c..