I thought Korean characters in UTF-8 would be perfectly solid thing in the real world specially with PHP. Maybe it’s just vbulletin board. I don’t know it yet.
I set up vbulletin for Korean users and set everything to UTF-8 for better international language support. However, it turned out vbulletin wasn’t ready for that yet. Korean characters get garbled after posting it and also those characters get garbaged when they are stored in mysql. Is this software issue that doesn’t process asian UTF-8 characters? Who knows…
I submitted a ticket to vbulletin developer team and got a response saying they will diagnose the issue when they get access information to my server. Let’s see how it goes.
When things go well, I can finally open the forum back again. Until then, it’s no no…