Please ignore this posting and remove the addition lines of code that I had you add. The new 3.2 version of the portal will handle this much better.
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For those of you that use special characters in their status updates and comments, you were finding that they were not displaying properly on the site.
We had to set our MySQL database connection to UTF-8 character set in the setup file. The function is called mysql_set_charset
So open your "settings.php" file in the "connections" folder and go to line 7 and add this line of code
$connection = mysql_connect(DB_SERVER, DB_USERNAME, DB_PASSWORD) or die(mysql_error());
mysql_set_charset('utf8',$connection);
That should fix the problem.
