Question Board Title - not showing correctly

Hello,

I am running an Arabic site, and last week my host upgraded my account, so they moved my site to a new server.

Everything is working fine, except one thing. When I save my setting in back-end the "Board Title" is not showing the arabic letters and showing question marks.

Please check the attached .

Any hints on what to do?

Thanks,

Please check your database table: jos_fb_config. Which character set it has?

Hello Matias,

And thank you for your reply.

Matias wrote:

Please check your database table: jos_fb_config. Which character set it has?

I found jos_fb_config & jos_fb_config_backup are set to "latin1_swedish_ci", and all the other tables are set as "utf8_general_ci".

How can I change it? And what is the best character set for Arabic, shall I leave it as "utf8_general_ci" or change it to "utf8_bin" ?

Thanks

I would use utf8_general_ci, but the issue here is that every time you save Kunena configuration, Kunena will move old table into backup and create a new table. If your default charset for MySQL is not utf8_general_ci, it will use latin1_swedish_ci.

Quick fix: change default charset in MySQL configuration file (my.cnf).

Matias wrote:

Quick fix: change default charset in MySQL configuration file (my.cnf).

Thank you Matias, worked out fine

Regards,

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