I am having problems with the character encoding of my bbpress install. I have it integrated with wordpress and when I use the "Latest bbpress discussions" plugin I see the weird characters you get when you mix collations and charsets.
I have wordpress in utf-8 thanks to this plugin: utf8 dtaabase converter.
Before it I had it set to utf but still, the database was showing weird characters (the collation was alright though). So this is probably a MySQL problem somewhere.
Should I try to adapt the wordpress utf8 converter for bbpress?