My phpBB2 forum is writen in hebrew and if I'm correct it uses " $lang['ENCODING'] = 'WINDOWS-1255'; "

Is it possible to add this encoding ?

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naheemsays’s picture

naheemsays commented

You can try.

Open up phpbb2drupal.pages.inc and then find:

    'Windows-1251 (CP1251)' => 'Windows-1251 (CP1251)',
    'Windows-1252 (CP1252)' => 'Windows-1252 (CP1252)',

and anywhere around there add a new line:

    'WINDOWS-1255' => 'WINDOWS-1255',

If it works, it works.

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makopolok commented

Tried that but from what I gather in Hebrew forum the problem is in the database encoding settings. Things about utf-8 and latin1 , export re-imort what is confusing that for someone that don't have real knowledge there are so many different level of encoding : the phpbb2 files encoding , the phpmyadmin encodings and charset , and the out to sql. Very confusing. Hope to update soon the solution.

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naheemsays commented

It should not matter where the encoding change is done... Is it possible to change the encoding before attempting to import?

That may be a way to go, convert the data to utf8 and then in teh settings choose to not convert the encodings.

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naheemsays commented
Status: Active » Closed (fixed)

closing as with phpbb3 this is no longer a problem - all phpbb3 installs will use UTF-8 - the same encoding as Drupal.