Hello there!

We are in the proccess of migrating from a vbulletin v 4.2.3 forum to wordpress and bbpress
BUT importing results in completely unreadable characters!
For instance take a look here –> http://www.ninty.gr/home/forums/
The text is like :
“Καταρχάς, μην είστ”
The originating vbulletin forum is in Greek (http://www.ninty.gr/content.php) if it means anything btw
Amy ideas?

[@braveheart1980 Participant 8 years, 9 months ago]

Anyone?

[@casiepa Moderator 8 years, 9 months ago]

Hi,
Probably wrong characterset, let me see if I find somebody that could help.
Pascal.

[@netweb Keymaster 8 years, 9 months ago]

For sure this would be related to the character set used.

Have you installed WordPress using the Greek language pack?

Any chance you could install WordPress using the same character set as the character set used by your Greek vBulletin install and try importing? Or maybe converting your vBulletin database to use a utf8 database?

New WordPress installs use the character set utf8_general_ci, previously WordPress would use utf8, the Greek locale your vBulletin install is using