Weird Charecters in West Asian Languages (VB 3.x To Mybb)

[JovanJ]

After convert vb 3.8 to Mybb 1.6 Using Mybb 1.6.1 Merge sysyem all of the Persian (also west Asian Languages) posts are in weird type! Like this: Automatically convert messages to UTF8 = OFF

دسته بندی من

Automatically convert messages to UTF8 = ON

Ã?¯Ã?³Ã?ªÃ?â?¡ Ã?¨Ã?â? Ã?¯Ã?Å? Ã?â?¦Ã?â?

VB Posts Table = Latin1
MyBB Posts table = UTF-8

http://dev.mybb.com/issues/1519

[JordanMussi]

Does this apply to 1.8? As the 1.6 Merge System will receive no more updates keeping a 1.6-specific issue on the tracker is unnecessary.

[JN-Jones]

This seems to be a common issue, however it's a weird one: Persian (and any other non west European) characters can't be saved as latin1 and there's no way with php's default functions to convert them back to utf8. So vb (and probably ipb) seem to do some magic here. Someone (likely me :P) needs to search in their files how exactly they handle those characters and improve our utf8/convert function(s).