Hello, A new question has been asked in "Moving to MariaDB" by alijam. Please answer it at http://mariadb.com/kb/en/joomla-15-and-unicode-databse/ as the person asking the question may not be subscribed to the mailing list. -------------------------------- I have a server which (unfortunately) have tens of joomla 1.5 websites, After upgrade from Mysql to Mariadb 10 , all of the unicode texts are being displayed as question marks (i.e. ?????? ????), I looked into the databases , the data seems to be intact, even I moved some of them to another server with mariadb 5.6 which "seems" ok. It seems to be a driver/configuration issue. It works on later versions of joomla (2.5& 3.x) versions. It seems mariadb should also be compatible with joomla 1.5 In the joomla system information it says: Database Version: 10.0.20-MariaDB Database Collation: N/A (mySQL < 4.1.2) PHP Version: 5.4.41 Web Server: Apache Web Server to PHP interface: cgi-fcgi Joomla! Version: Joomla! 1.5.26 Stable [ senu takaa ama busani ] 27-March-2012 18:00 GMT User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; WOW64; rv:39.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/39.0 Any help would be greatly appreciated , as I'm going to upgrade my other servers to mariadb. Best -------------------------------- To view or answer this question please visit: http://mariadb.com/kb/en/joomla-15-and-unicode-databse/