Title: [Plugin: WP phpBB Bridge] Accents
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# [Plugin: WP phpBB Bridge] Accents

 *  [kokohv](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kokohv/)
 * (@kokohv)
 * [15 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wp-phpbb-bridge-accents/)
 * Hi there,
 * i would like to know what i have to edit to allow the plugin showing the accents
   of the spanish words.
 * Is it possible ? Thanks.
 * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-phpbb-bridge/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-phpbb-bridge/)

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 *  Plugin Author [Nikos Merianos](https://wordpress.org/support/users/merianos/)
 * (@merianos)
 * [15 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wp-phpbb-bridge-accents/#post-1923669)
 * Hello 🙂
 * First of all you have to download the poedit from here : [http://www.poedit.net/download.php](http://www.poedit.net/download.php)
 * Then you have to open the file /wp-content/plugins/wp_phpbb_bridge/languages/
   wp_phpbb_bridge-en.po with the poedit. Make any change you like and finaly save
   the project as _wp\_phpbb\_bridge-**es**.po_
 * Finally we will be huppy to share you translation with our plugin.
 * Kind regards
    The Greek WordPress Community 🙂
 * PS: When you finish, you can send the translation to [support@wordpress-gr.org](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wp-phpbb-bridge-accents/support@wordpress-gr.org?output_format=md)
 *  Thread Starter [kokohv](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kokohv/)
 * (@kokohv)
 * [15 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wp-phpbb-bridge-accents/#post-1923687)
 * Hi there,
 * i did that and i’m sending you the translated files, but that wasn’t my question.
   I did explained myself wrong.
 * This is my issue
 * [http://i51.tinypic.com/i1l4c0.jpg](http://i51.tinypic.com/i1l4c0.jpg)
 * Whenever a topic in the forum has and accent, like “Presentación” the plugin 
   smoke crack.
 * Thanks
 *  Plugin Author [Nikos Merianos](https://wordpress.org/support/users/merianos/)
 * (@merianos)
 * [15 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wp-phpbb-bridge-accents/#post-1923708)
 * Kind regards about your translation.
 * Maybe you have wrong encoding in your page. Try the utf-8.
 * May this help. If not contact as back again 🙂
 *  Thread Starter [kokohv](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kokohv/)
 * (@kokohv)
 * [15 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wp-phpbb-bridge-accents/#post-1923713)
 * No problem, it took me a couple of minutes, i’m glad i could help.
 * I’m sure that’s the problem, but whad do i have to change ? WP or phpBB? wp-config?
   Would it be safe ?
 * Thanks.
 *  Plugin Author [Nikos Merianos](https://wordpress.org/support/users/merianos/)
 * (@merianos)
 * [15 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wp-phpbb-bridge-accents/#post-1923730)
 * To play with character set in WordPress there are several ways.
 * To get the character set from this page wp-admin/options-reading.php into your
   theme you can Use that code
 * `<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=<?php bloginfo('
   charset'); ?>" />`
 * Otherwise you can access your theme and change the current encoding with this
   one
 * <meta http-equiv=”content-type” content=”text/html; charset=utf-8″ />
 * In phpBB3 you have to modify the file /includes/functions.php. You have to search
   for the record S_CONTENT_ENCODING and change it’s value to the UTF-8.
 * After that changes you will propably not have anymore problem 🙂
 *  [CynepMEH](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cynepmeh/)
 * (@cynepmeh)
 * [15 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wp-phpbb-bridge-accents/#post-1923743)
 * Hello,
 * I have the same problem. I am using cyrillic characters (Bulgarian language) 
   and I have UTF-8 everywhere. I still get the ? for each non-english character.
   How can I fix that?
 * Thank you.
 *  Thread Starter [kokohv](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kokohv/)
 * (@kokohv)
 * [15 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wp-phpbb-bridge-accents/#post-1923744)
 * Yes, it didn’t work and i just removed the widget since i don’t know how to fix
   it.
 * The plugin works great managing the users between phpbb and wordpress, but the
   widget, it just don’t work.
 *  Plugin Author [Nikos Merianos](https://wordpress.org/support/users/merianos/)
 * (@merianos)
 * [15 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wp-phpbb-bridge-accents/#post-1923745)
 * I don’t realy know what’s going wrong with you 🙁
 * I did a re-search in the plugin, and every file is saved in UTF-8, also the translation
   files are in UTF-8. So I can’t find the source of the problem. 🙁
 * In next version I will try to find the reason, but I can’t find it for now 🙁
 *  [bworth](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bworth/)
 * (@bworth)
 * [15 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wp-phpbb-bridge-accents/#post-1923766)
 * Hi, sorry for my english
    The problem that have [@kokohv](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kokohv/)
   is that the collation of the phpbb database is different from utf8. The solution
   is to write the following line before submit a query to the phpbb database:
 * `@mysql_query('SET CHARACTER SET UTF8', $cn);`
 * I added it in widget-posts.php before:
 * `$rs = @mysql_query ($qr, $cn);`
 * and the problem was solved.
 * I hope I have helped.
 *  [CynepMEH](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cynepmeh/)
 * (@cynepmeh)
 * [15 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wp-phpbb-bridge-accents/#post-1923767)
 * [@bworth](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bworth/)
 * That worked! Solves the issue!
 * Thank you!
 *  Thread Starter [kokohv](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kokohv/)
 * (@kokohv)
 * [15 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wp-phpbb-bridge-accents/#post-1923768)
 * **Thank you very much.** It did worked smoothly.
 *  [hit321](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hit321/)
 * (@hit321)
 * [14 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wp-phpbb-bridge-accents/#post-1923779)
 * bworth,
    Thank you! Perfect solution I think.
 *  [efutrell](https://wordpress.org/support/users/efutrell/)
 * (@efutrell)
 * [14 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wp-phpbb-bridge-accents/#post-1923784)
 * I’m fairly new to WordPress files, etc, but am comfortable with code – can anyone
   explain a little more what [@bworth](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bworth/)
   has suggested? I’m sure that’s the answer to all my Greek showing up as ???. 
   I would appreciate it!
 *  [CynepMEH](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cynepmeh/)
 * (@cynepmeh)
 * [14 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wp-phpbb-bridge-accents/#post-1923785)
 * Hi,
 * you should do the following:
 * 1. Open widget-posts.php
    2. Go to the line where this piece of code is: `$rs
   = @mysql_query ($qr, $cn);` 3. Add this line of code above it: `@mysql_query('
   SET CHARACTER SET UTF8', $cn);` 4. So the final code looks like this:
 *     ```
       @mysql_query('SET CHARACTER SET UTF8', $cn);
       $rs = @mysql_query ($qr, $cn);
       ```
   

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