Problem with encoding and vb version

[TarantinoMariachi]

Hi there, I am having trouble with hebrew language: משחקי הנוסטלגיה לא פועלים כעת. אנא חזור בשלב מאוחר יותר.

There is some encoding problem, after conversion I get something like æëøåðé äí îâéòéí ìî÷åí àçø åîåôéòéí áå åàæ

I've vb 3.6.12. The collation at vb was latin_swedish_1, tried to convert, but with problems. I changed to utf8_bin, problem persists.
I tried to remove all vb_set_encoding_from_source, the converter runned better without it, but problem persisted.

And the vb_version doesnt seem to work with 3.6.12 since it removes the dots and makes 3612 that is bigger then 370

[gouarfig]

I remember characters encoding was a nightmare. There's the vb/phpBB encoding + the database encoding and they can all be different.

I can certainly do a quick fix for the version number.
For the encoding it's very dependent on your installation I'm afraid. I remember it worked for a board using Cyrillic characters but I forgot which settings worked.

In the file includes/config.php, there's a setting $config['Mysqli']['charset']. Is it the same as the default encoding in the mysql database?

[TarantinoMariachi]

The line was commented:

// $config['Mysqli']['charset'] = 'utf8';

Since im not using latin no more, I'll uncomment and test again, since I converted the collation to utf8_bin to be the same as phpbb

Just so anyone comes by... It should be $config['Mysqli']['charset'] = 'utf-8'; orelse it will give an error: "Unknown encoding: utf8"

PS: I'll let you know if this works.

[TarantinoMariachi]

Didnt worked... :/ Still with bad chars

I'll try to iconv the database