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First version of Bulgarian translation can be obtained from here.

Instructions for setting up UseBB to work fine with UTF-8.

Create a database from your CPanel, and set tables encoding from your phpMyadmin/Options to utf8_general_ci. Then follow the installer of your UseBB.

Current version is not verified by corrector, and includes only frontend, FAQ is on the way, and administration will be done in a week or so.

Updates regarding translation, will be posted here.

Download Link for the translation - http://ilivanov.info/index.php?option=com_remository&Itemid=34&func=fileinfo&id=53

ep98 wrote

Instructions for setting up UseBB to work fine with UTF-8.

Setting the database collation is one thing, but UseBB is not entirely multibyte safe, since we don't use a seperate library or mbstring and PHP 4 and 5 by default doesn't support multibyte encodings.

Using UTF-8 is still at your own risk.

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but UseBB is not entirely multibyte safe, since we don't use a seperate library or mbstring and PHP 4 and 5 by default doesn't support multibyte encodings.

Nova days professional hosting providers like:
for Bulgarians
ICN, NS1, SuperHosting
and for others - SiteGround, supports mbstring by default
Demo of UseBB 1.0.8 in Bulgarian can be viewed on - http://beta.ilivanov.info (when translation is done, site will gone, not plan to form a support forums yet).

Current domain is set up on Ultima plan/ICN Hosting (www.icn.bg). So if u plan to use this translation in the way it is, this company will work for u without problems

Edit:
Current version is not verified by corrector, and includes only frontend, FAQ is on the way, and administration will be done in a week or so.
Link is the same, just re-download it.

UseBB does not use mbstring, it only does so if PHP is configured to map the primitive string functions to mbstring ones, which is almost never the case. It's no use creating a translation in UTF-8 based on the fact that your own host has mbstring and perhaps always uses it (which is not proven at this point).

Ok, works on magic... Use it on your own, or convert it. Verified on listed above hosts.

In bulgarian: (bcz usebb.net uses iso-8859-1, which is more compatible ...blah)

Prevoda ne e zavurshen, samo za potrebitelskata chast e.
FAQ sekciata shte e gotova utre.
Administrativnata do sedmica

Prevoda e UTF-8 (without byte of mark), testvan e i raboti na ICN, NS1, Superhosting i SiteGround. ne se iziskva slagane na php flag v .htaccess.

Ako ne vi iznasia, ne go polzwajte. Ako smiatate da go polzvate, komentari v foruma na Joomla BG - http://forum.joomla-bg.com/index.php/topic,12852.msg80503.html#msg80503

What a 'warm' welcome....
Romanian pirate with XennoBB was more friendly, thanks anyway.

Can you remove my account please. Thanks.

I can't help if you don't want to understand it. Yes it does seem to work, but UseBB was never designed to work with UTF-8 (PHP is not multibyte safe plus UseBB does not use the mbstring extension). Yes, there have been a few patches in the code for UTF-8 submitted by a user but these have never been officially supported.

Thus to repeat one more time: UTF-8 is unsupported on UseBB 1. This also means that if you would want to convert to UseBB 2 later on and there seem to be conversion problems with your UTF-8 data (which may have been crippled by UseBB 1 and PHP's string functions), this will be your own problem and there will be no support whatsoever.

This has nothing to do with a "warm" welcome. Everybody is free to register and give comments, but if you want to develop resources you have to agree with the system's limitations and don't expect you will not receive any criticism when you are redistributing something that will potentionally not work.

As for XennoBB... if you want to support someone who copied code from other projects and act as it's his own, go ahead, but these people are not welcome here. As for XennoBB with UTF-8: yes XennoBB always said to be UTF-8 compatible, which was untrue. Marius probably thought about it the same way as you do so now: "it doesn't seem to be a problem, so I guess it works." Sadly, in web development something that seems to work in the end does not always do so. (On a side note, PunBB < 1.3 on which XennoBB was based, does not support UTF-8 either.)

Topic closed now.