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[pmillen]

I do not know what to say, I do not know how to fix it.

The site was fine until about a week ago.  There must have been some change at your server or such.  I don't see why you have to hire someone to fix a problem that someone else caused.

[Bentley]

I guess I will contact HostGator and start there!

[Bar-B-Lew]

This may be part of the issue.  I wouldn't know where to look to determine if it was though.

Using UTF-8 characters in a non-UTF-8 forum
If your members are using UTF-8 characters, perhaps copied into their posts from an editing program, but you did not use UTF-8 when you set up the forum, these UTF-8 characters (special characters like

[Bar-B-Lew]

Something else I found that had a problem with a change the service provider made but it was Finland so not sure if that matters or not.

Our service provider changed their database setup so that the default encoding is UTF-8. Our previous encoding was ISO-8859-1. This messed up those special characters we use here in Finland so i took a dump of the database and run it with iconv to convert those special characters. Now that did not go so well

[pmillen]

True enough, BBL, but UTF-8 is the default character set for HTML5.  Why would anyone switch away from the default, as what apparently happened here?

[TecSupport]

I am a Tech Support from HostGator.
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[Bentley]

Well, according to HostGator, SMF is not set up to read the UTF-8.  Not sure how that could be, I have used the (degree) symbol fine untill about 5 days ago.  I am hoping that at least that is the problem, and I will try and spend tomorrow not only seeing if I can get that issue fixed, but updating us ti the latest version of SMF.

If we go Dark, you all will know why!

[Bentley]

This is what I ask Host Gator tech support to post. I am Tech Support from HostGator. 100°. Test. Test. Test. Test.

[Bar-B-Lew]

I read several issues about going from 2.0.15 to 2.016.  Hopefully, you have a way to roll back to 2.0.15 if it doesn't go well.  I think they are on 2.0.18 now.

[Kristin Meredith]

Test:  "The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers."

[Bentley]

I do not know if it will correct old text or even if it is corrected.  I tried to update the site to the UTF-8.  I am not even sure it has done anything.  I just know I was having issues with the °, and that seems to be corrected. I do not even know how to make most of the symbols that Paul has posted.  So maybe he will be able to check tomorrow.

[pmillen]

I do not know if it will correct old text or even if it is corrected.  I tried to update the site to the UTF-8.  I am not even sure it has done anything.  I just know I was having issues with the °, and that seems to be corrected. I do not even know how to make most of the symbols that Paul has posted.  So maybe he will be able to check tomorrow.

I will type these symbols in the same sequence as they appear on the list.  I will just string them together, 20 symbols on one line, comma separated.

But first, I will type an apostrophe, '

≈, "", ~, £, •, ¢, ©, °, ÷, …, —, –, €, ≥, ≤, µ, ≠, ±, ®, ™

EDIT:  Hooray!  All display properly.

[pmillen]

Congratulations go to Bar-B-Lew for diagnosing the problem and to Bentley for fixing it.

[yorkdude]

Congratulations go to Bar-B-Lew for diagnosing the problem and to Bentley for fixing it.

Good job guys. Wish I was that smart.

[Fire708]

I’ll try again,
€£¥_^[]{}§|~…\<>!?
@#$&*()’”%-+=/;:,.

Edit: works on iPad again! Strong work you two. Text encoding is outside my computer knowledge base.