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🧩 XenForo phpMyAdmin UTF-8 Issue Solution​

When importing your XenForo forum backups through phpMyAdmin, you may encounter character corruption.
This usually happens due to a mismatch between the character set and collation, especially with Turkish characters (ı, ğ, ç, ü, etc.).

In this guide, we’ll explain step-by-step how to easily fix this issue by making a few simple edits to your XenForo backup .sql file.

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✅ How to Fix UTF-8 Issues in a XenForo Backup​

Open your XenForo database backup using a text editor.
We recommend using Notepad++.

Open your SQL file with Notepad++ and search for the following lines, then replace them as shown below.
You can use the CTRL + F shortcut to find the lines.

Find this line:

utf8mb4_0900_ai_ci

Replace it with:

utf8_unicode_ci

Also find this line:

utf8mb4

Replace it with:

utf8

⚠️ Sometimes there’s more than one instance that needs to be replaced, so make sure to change all of them at once.

 

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