WIP Fix non-ASCII characters on the forums

[VinnyVideo]

While experimenting with PHP upgrades on the forums, I made an update to the forums that inadvertently broke a few non-ASCII characters (see this).

I ran a few SQL queries that I *think* fixed the issues. Let me know if you notice any posts (or templates, or signatures, or PMs, or topic titles, or whatnot) that use weird symbols. Especially "Â".

I trust no one is bummed that all Microsoft Word-style "curly" apostrophes are now "straight" apostrophes.

[Sean]

It’s so amazing that you fixed the apostrophes! It’s always fun seeing others discover differences in character encoding.

What was it this time? Did you go from ISO to UTF-8?

Don’t worry about the apostrophes in this post. I’m just messing with ya.

[VinnyVideo]

@Sean Heh heh... you had me going there for a moment!

I *thought* the forums had always been UTF-8, but there might have been some kind of issue with the charset or collation previously.

Course clear! You got a card.