hi, i'm facing some problems that quite similar with this, http://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php?topic=165442.0 1. Almost all mods i installed have no effect or never show out the option in admin panel 2. Member can not post any other characters except english. so i reinstalled a new forum script into a subdomain to test up, and all are fine. (previously was installed from hostagtor) I found out that both collation in phpmyadmin are different. may i know how to do to change them to utf-8? a step by step guide is greatly appreciated. thank you this is one of the situation. the option doesn't show up after i installed it