Forum / BBS / Message board with UTF-8?

Markus Ernst wrote:

Hi

After installing phpBB I encountered that despite the various languages
available, it is not utf-8 compatible.

You could just modify phpBB to use utf-8

http://www.phpbb.com/kb/article.php?article_id=308
//Aho

J.O. Aho schrieb:

You could just modify phpBB to use utf-8

http://www.phpbb.com/kb/article.php?article_id=308

Thank you - I have seen this article, but I have some doubts about the
approach. Maybe changing MySQL to UTF-8 is necessary when modifying
existing forums. In the rest of my application, though, I found some
other steps useful that are not mentioned in the article - such as
sending an UTF-8 HTTP header, adding an accept-charset attribute to all
form tags - but setting MySQL to UTF-8 was not necessary.

So I did not feel too much comfortable with this tutorial.

If I don't find a bbs application that uses UTF-8 natively, I think I
will prefer miniBB; it looks just smaller and easier to modify.

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Markus