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TechAdmin:
Hello, as the title says the forum has been updated to UTF-8. This makes it so that "weird" characters such as èéëòóöàáä and similar stuff won't (shouldn't :P) have problems to display anymore ("Côte d'Ivoire" in profiles, for example).
If you're wondering "that's it? Just including some characters?" it's not that simple... It makes things easier because the whole system was kind of a mix-up with lots of different charsets used, most of which outdated or not really conventional ones ::) Other positive effects of this change are that the forum should be faster with the search feature, have some kind of better Google indexing and will make things easier for the big future upgrades.

Now the bad news. Since the database was such a mix-up the upgrade wasn't exactly smooth, there were some problems I had to solve including but not limited to a silly bug within a mod that locked the whole upgrade for a good half an hour before I could manage to track it down... I do have a backup of the database just in case, but if you do see broken topics/posts/anything strictly words-related please let me know in this topic.

Regards.

DamonHD:
Grazie mille!

Now we are being a little more polite to the non-ASCII-speaking world!  B^>

Rgds

Damon

JW:
I thought you were up to something today. I cant believe it went that smoothly GOOD JOB!!!!

SparWeb:
Félicitations.
Je peux te dire combien je l'apprécie maintenant!

MagnetJuice:
Gracias señor, ahora podemos escribir loquerías aquí.  ;D

Ed

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