Comments on: Converting vBulletin to UTF-8

By: alein

alein — Mon, 01 Aug 2011 08:31:03 +0000

Great post.
I save 3 forums and one big site with this tutorial.

Thank you so much.

By: nada

nada — Fri, 15 Oct 2010 13:23:49 +0000

i now test in my forum Sooooon

By: zdig1

zdig1 — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 14:29:24 +0000

hello
i get error from the first ligne :))))))
i have phpmyadmin and mysqldumper
where i wrote thos commande ??????

By: obada jabban

obada jabban — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 11:51:22 +0000

thank you very much….
valuable article, and it assist me to solve my problems that i struggle with for 7 days nearly

By: AbedurRahman

AbedurRahman — Sun, 13 Jun 2010 12:19:52 +0000

Hello
It didn’t Worked out for me..
I replaced the windows 1256 to utf8 using
#replace
command, and when I tried to insert the data back in to the database with the command:
#mysql -u root -p –max_allowed_packet=1024M < vbulletin_db.sql
it gives:
#—***////ERROR 1064 (42000) at line 7: You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near 'utf8 @OLD_CHARACTER_utf8_CLIENT=@@CHARACTER_utf8_CLIENT */' at line 1—***////
pleas, tell me if there is anything i should do!
Thanks for ur kind help

By: AbedurRahman

AbedurRahman — Sun, 13 Jun 2010 12:18:58 +0000

By: root

root — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 15:45:27 +0000

all goes smooth without errors, but all i got is gibberish.

By: ploph1x

ploph1x — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 21:39:54 +0000

To make the replacement with sed you can do the following:

sed -i.bak -e ‘s/CHARSET=latin1/CHARSET=utf8/g’ -e ‘s/CHARACTER SET latin1 COLLATE latin1_bin/CHARACTER SET utf8 COLLATE utf8_bin/g’ vbulletin_db_utf8.sql

sed -i.bak -e ‘s/CHARSET=latin1/CHARSET=utf8/g’ -e ‘s/CHARACTER SET latin1 COLLATE latin1_bin/CHARACTER SET utf8 COLLATE utf8_bin/g’ vbulletin_db_images.sql

By: Marco

Marco — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:28:00 +0000

I don’t understand why you make me convert with iconv and then I have to import the file I haven’t converted:

mysql -u root -p –max_allowed_packet=1024M < vbulletin_db.sql

Is there something I don't get in your process?

And, after doing that point I guess I'll have to import the vbulletin_db_images.sql too right?

mysql -u root -p –max_allowed_packet=1024M < vbulletin_db_images.sql

Thanks
Marco

By: Rafael

Rafael — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 16:17:54 +0000

I don’t know why but I have a problem when try to restore the new database, it says that have problems with the new DB and my user ¿?

It says that I have a problem with the permissions, but I have the permissions setting up correctly.

Any help please!!