VBulletin 5.0.2 instead of Cyrillic question marks

Question

PHP

The situation is as follows: I updated the previous version of the forum (4.0.4) to 5.0.2 and after that I get question marks instead of Cyrillic. In the fourth version, this problem was solved by adding

mysql_query ("set character_set_client='utf8'");
mysql_query ("set character_set_results='utf8'");
mysql_query ("set collation_connection='utf8_general_ci'");

it to init.php after connecting to the database. But in version 5 this doesn’t work anymore and I can’t google anything, in general, whoever dealt with a similar problem, please help. The base is in utf8_general_ci, all tables are similar, the page is also loaded in utf.

Answer 1

Everything is fine in the database, well, at least in phpmyadmin everything is perfectly visible.

Answer 2

Version 4 solved this problem by adding
mysql_query("set character_set_client='utf8'");
mysql_query("set character_set_results='utf8'");
mysql_query("set collation_connection='utf8_general_ci'");

We don’t know how in the 5th, but in the 4th, as well as in the 3rd version, according to the correct one, this was solved not by adding those 3 lines, but by uncommenting the includes/config.php line
$config['Mysqli']['charset '] = 'utf8';

Everything is fine in the database, well, at least in phpmyadmin everything is perfectly visible.

Does phpmyadmin have a default connection to the database? If you just make a script for the purity of the experiment, which takes a record from the database, setting and / or not setting the charset - where will the problem be?

Answer 3

And in the headers of the website itself, is the encoding set correctly?
I don't have any VB code handy, but maybe I still need utf-8 support in php. For example: http://tympanus.net/codrops/2009/08/31/solving-php-mysql-utf-8-issues/

Answer 4

AddDefaultCharset utf-8 in .htaccess try adding