[buddypress-trac] [BuddyPress Trac] #7505: Problems with special characters for Member Names (e.g. é à ç etc)

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#7505: Problems with special characters for Member Names (e.g. é à ç etc)
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 Reporter:  XrossGG                          |       Owner:
     Type:  defect (bug)                     |      Status:  closed
 Priority:  normal                           |   Milestone:
Component:  Core                             |     Version:  2.8.2
 Severity:  normal                           |  Resolution:  invalid
 Keywords:  needs-testing reporter-feedback  |
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Changes (by DJPaul):

 * status:  new => closed
 * resolution:   => invalid
 * milestone:  Awaiting Review =>


Comment:

 Check your database table's encoding and character sets. If this site is
 older than a few years, the BuddyPress database tables won't be utf8 (I
 think they started out as latin1, due to a bug we had years and years ago)
 and nowadays they should be utf8mb4.

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