Symbols being replaced after posting

[clothahump]

If I post a message including the UK Pound symbol £ after posting it shows as a question mark ? just discovered it also does it when using the copyright symbol ©

[Masterd]

Wich language are you useing? You need to use the UTF-8 variant of that language.

[clothahump]

Is this done via the admin panel or server side?

[Masterd]

You can download all language packs here:

http://download.simplemachines.org/?languages

[clothahump]

Thanks, do I need to change the DB to utf 8 as well?

[Masterd]

Yes, you do.

[clothahump]

All done and working properly now, many thanks.

[Masterd]

No problem!

I'm marking this topic as solved.