Just upgraded to 1.0.4 from 1.0.3 version.

I run a non latin language website (to be more exact - Hebrew) and use UTF-8 encoding both in template and language files. My DB is configured with UTF-8 collation too.

The upgrade went very well and after that I updated the language file. There was almost no need to update forum template CSS.

The forum works like a charm after the upgrade but the only thing bothering me is that while posting a new topic or replying when I push the Preview button I can't see the message I wrote in Hebrew. Instead I see very strange strings like this one
[code:1]%u05D4%u05D5%u05D3%u05E2%u05EA %u05D1%u05D3%u05D9%u05E7%u05D4[/code:1]
that was intended to be "test message" in Hebrew.

I also tried to use another non latin languages (Russian, for example) and got the same problem.

I posted this in the Bug Tracker. Hopefully a fix will reveal itself.

I upgraded to 1.0.4 from 1.0.3 version.

I run a Hebrew language website and use UTF-8.

And I heave the same problem, Jibberish in the message text

I found simple solution:

in file /components/com_fireboard/fireboard.php
find the lines (132-136):
[code:1]
$msgbody = smile::«»smileReplace( $message , 0, _CLEXUSPM_LIVEPATH, $ClexusPMconfig->show_smiles);
$msgbody = smile::htmlwrap($msgbody, $fbConfig['wrap']);
header("Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8"«»);
echo utf8_encode($msgbody);
die();
[/code:1]

and change with:
[code:1]
$msgbody = smile::«»smileReplace( $message , 0, _CLEXUSPM_LIVEPATH, $ClexusPMconfig->show_smiles);
$msgbody = smile::htmlwrap($msgbody, $fbConfig['wrap']);
$msgbody = ereg_replace('%u0([[:alnum:]]{3})', '
',$msgbody);
header("Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8"«»);
echo $msgbody;
die();
[/code:1]

My site runs with UTF-8 encoding and this solution worked for me but I didn't check with encodings diffrerent from UTF-8

It's working. Thank YOU!!! Saved me a lot of time.

Thank you!! just grade!!!

Forum cuts code..so please see here:
www.bestofjoomla.com/component/option,co...w/id,37254/catid,79/

[code:1]
[b]isranet wrote:[/b]
[quote]I found simple solution:
[/code:1]

Thank you so much for this, it was driving me nuts:) ...really a shame no-one gave you some karma for this, I was the first one:)