Converting to UTF-8

[shanksta13]

My default language has been English for a while, and I'm trying to convert to UTF-8 now.  I've downloaded and installed English-UTF8 from SMF, but I'm getting an error when I try to convert the database to UTF-8.  Here's the error, any help?

"You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near 'desc desc blob NOT NULL' at line 4"

[shanksta13]

Any help on this issue, it's really bugging me?

[Vekseid]

My own personal suggestion is: Don't convert to UTF-8. It is at best a cheap hack and regardless is completely unnecessary.

[shanksta13]

My own personal suggestion is: Don't convert to UTF-8. It is at best a cheap hack and regardless is completely unnecessary.

Okay, then is there any way to add custom characters to a different language set?

[Vekseid]

Most browsers will transparently handle the situation.

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カタカナ

カタカナ

The second sequence will turn into the third on an iso-8859-1 forum.

[JBlaze]

shanksta13, is this issue resolved?

If it is solved, please feel free to mark it solved.

[shanksta13]

Never could get it to work, but I'll go ahead and mark it solved anyway.