I'm really late on this topic, and if I sound like I don't know what I'm talking about I don't. Last week I was an absolute novice. I am interested in making it possible for users to post in multiple languages, notably East Asian and European. After playing with CB 1.2RC4 and some of the compatible components I'm a bit at a loss.
Testing I found that an article in simplified Chinese published to the front page comes out as gibberish. When using Agora and JoomGallery, the results of inputted text seem fine. I don't really understand databases but I was able to see that Agora and Joom both use utf-8 unified or general collation. It looks like the CB stuff uses a Latin1_Swedish_ci.
I think my question is, if I use a utf-8 plug-in (and is there one for 1.5) will that solve this problem or am I way off base? I'm not talking about a translator. I'd like original text whether inputted by me or a user to stay orginal (in articles, blogs, forums, and everywhere else).
Hope I'm not asking too much. Thanks for any feedback.