[mypop]

SOLVED!!!!!

Searched for \”cannot yet handle MBCS\” in the forum and came up with Trent\’s post about the same error, once again I\’m running PHP 5.2.9 it wasn\’t that, a quick tweek to line 53 (based on Trent\’s advice)

so I edited /my-plugins/buddypress-enable.php and changed line 53 from:

$post_text = html_entity_decode( $post_text, ENT_COMPAT, \”UTF-8\” );

to:

$post_text = utf8_decode($post_text);

Worked brilliantly – actually fixed the errors on both sides (BuddyPress and bbPress)