Question Migration problem with japanese characters

Hi all,

I'm attempting to migrate my current phpbb3 forum to Kunena. Actually I'm able to make the migration but only a last issue remain. My forum have a lot of posts with japanese characters but when I finished the migration process in the kunena forum instead of japanese characters I can see only a seires of "???????". I cheked the kunena db table charset and I noted that they are set to sweedish charset. I tried to change manually all the charset to unicode but after the migration only some part was imported corretnly (I can see the japanese words also in kunena) but the majority of the text was always "?????". Someone know how to fix this issue?
Thank you

Hello,

Try to set utf8 charset in your database with this : docs.kunena.com/index.php/Change_databas...es_with_a_php-script

Hi,

Thank you for your reply. Yesterday I found how to fix this problem about the sweedish charset. The problem was that the sweedish charset was set as default cherset in the db and the Kunena installation doesnt specify the charset want to use than the tables was created with this default. I simply chaged the default to unicode and reinstalled kunena. However my problem is not totally fixed. I found that the japanese characters was not imported correctly because the php script extract the japanese text from the db, store it into a variable and insert it tinto the new db. Iyt seem that php doesn't support unicode characters. I'm using WAMP as local server for my test that now I'm tring to find the php settings to enable unicode charset working with php. I found I must to activate the "mbstring" into the php.ini file, is it the right way?

Latest/most Kunena 1.5 releases use UTF-8, but do not specify collation.

You can use mb_* functions for UTF8..

Hi Matias

Which problem you are referring about? If you are referring about unocode not supported by php I'm using fo the porting the converter.zip script dalodable by this forum and indicated into the migration procedure. Waht way do you suggest to follow for enable unicode working into the script?

Unfortunately also enable all PHP "mbstring" options set to japanese language doesn't help, the script for migration always lose japanese characters and write ???? instead...