Same problem with Greek characters @ Forum.
i m also using buddypress builtin forum installation.
Anyone who knows the solution or thinking of something that might help?
.pleaze advice.
—FYI—
1. Which version of WPMU are you running?
-WordPress MU 2.8.6.
2. Did you install WPMU as a directory or subdomain install?
-subdomain install
3. If a directory install, is it in root or in a subdirectory?
—
4. Did you upgraded from a previous version of WPMU? If so, from which version?
-no
5. Was WPMU functioning properly before installing/upgrading BuddyPress?
—
6. Which version of BuddyPress (BP) are you running?
Version 1.1.3
7. Did you upgraded from a previous version of BP? If so, from which version?
-no
8. Do you have any plugins other than BuddyPress installed and activated?
yes-i unistalled all – issue still remains
9. Are you using the standard BuddyPress themes or customized themes?
-standard
10. Have you modified the core files in any way?
-no
11. Do you have any custom functions in bp-custom.php?
-no
12. If running bbPress, which version? Or did your BuddyPress install come with a copy of bbPress built-in
–builtin
13. Please provide a list of any errors in your server’s log files.
—
14. Which company provides your hosting?
—
Is anyone else having this problem?
Hmm. Any chance of a screenshot?
Here you are DJpaul.
blogs.ladieswall.com/error_imgs/homepage.jpg
blogs.ladieswall.com/error_imgs/forum.jpg
blogs.ladieswall.com/error_imgs/in_group.jpg
blogs.ladieswall.com/error_imgs/in_forum.jpg
hope for your help
Thanks nisigia. Bad news I think I know the problem and I’m not sure how to fix it easily. Will you confirm this?
Your wp_bp_* MySQL tables are of type ‘utf8’ but wp_bb_* are of latin1?
you are right – in the collation column i have “latin1_swedish_ci” & “utf8_general_ci”. could you drive me from here?
The problem is that they need to be the same (ideally, utf8) – this gives the ??? problem.
I’ve just done a test install and it’s installed the databases with these types.
If you look on the bb-config.php in the root directory of your site, I bet the “charset” is set to “UTF” — but the database tables are still installed as latin1.
The forums component is probably the weakest area of my BuddyPress knowledge. I’ve had a look at the code and I can’t see anything obviously wrong. I’ll let you know once I have news.
i confirm bb-config.php is set to “utf8”
i changed all Collations from wp_bb_ “latin1_swedish_ci” to “utf8_general_ci”
i deleted the old entries and create new ones – character problem is SOLVED – everything is now readable.
thank you vm for your time and precious help djpaul.