Hi,
this is a combination of a solution proposed here (with a little twist for smile support)

I'm posting here the final changes (without the original)

in file ../components/com_fireboard/fireboard.php (line 129):
[code:1]
$message = urldecode(decode_unicode_url($msgpreview));
[/code:1]

in file [i]../components/com_fireboard/fireboard.php[/i] (line 135):
[code:1]
echo $msgbody;
[/code:1]
[size=2][anything in between should stay as it was before (original 1.0.4)][/size]

somewhere in the same file (I did this at its end), add the described function:
[code:1]
function decode_unicode_url($str) //from the link provided above
{
...
}
[/code:1]


That's it - you can see this working in an Hebrew (utf-8) site: [url=http://www.datecafe.co.il/component/option,com_fireboard/Itemid,5]Date Cafe - Dating[/url]

Thank you very much!

It is still having some wrong char display - vietnamese Unicode utf-8.


Hope it will be fixed in next released!

This is weird since there is no difference between "Vietnamese Unicode UTF-8" & "Hebrew UTF-8", that's the whole ides of the Unicode name...

I got this message from my friend. It solves our utf-8 problem!

I solve my problem, so I share it.

First I replace escape(content) function in bojForumCore.js->fbGetPreview(content, sitemid) to encodeURIComponent(content);. I read that it is better than old escape.

And then I replace //echo utf8_encode($msgbody); to echo $msgbody; in fireboard.php as was suggested in this thread.

Finally I replace original function urldecode as follows

$message = utf8_urldecode(utf8_decode($msgpreview));

and body of function I found on php.net
function utf8_urldecode($str) {
$str = preg_replace("/%u([0-9a-f]{3,4})/i","1;",urldecode($str));
return html_entity_decode($str,null,'UTF-8';;
}

It is work for me in encoding I use.