Configuring Multibyte.

Hello there, After searching endlessly on the Internet and reading the manuals I'm still a bit lost as to how to solve this problem I'm having. I recently acquired a new dedicated server and have installed PHP 4.3.1 with multi-byte enabled. I'm trying to translate a forum called vbulletin into EUC-JP. I'd like to do Shift_JIS but I don't think it will work when users type in their messages. The Japanese seems to come out garbled. I saw a vbulletin forum at http://sb.xrea.com/ that uses EUC-JP very well and I'd love to know how they did it. Anyway, I'm not sure how to configure my php.ini file to correctly set up my server for EUC-JP. Here is what I've done thus far. Is this correct? --enable-mbstring --enable-mbstr-enc-trans --enable-mbregex output_buffering = Off default_charset = EUC-JP mbstring.language = Japanese mbstring.encoding_translation = On mbstring.http_input = auto mbstring.http_output = EUC-JP mbstring.internal_encoding = EUC-JP mbstring.substitute_character = none For Apache I did the following in httpd.conf: LanguagePriority jp en AddCharset EUC-JP .euc AddCharset ISO-2022-JP .jis AddCharset SHIFT_JIS .sjis AddLanguage jp .jp For my HTML headers I added the following Meta tags: <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html;charset=x-euc-jp"> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html;charset=euc-jp"> Is there anything else I need to do to ready my server for EUC-JP? Do I need to add anything to my PHP script files or to Mysql? Basically I live in Japan and wish to provide an opportunity for people to write in Japanese and English on my vbulletin forum similar to the site stated above. I'd really love to get this going so I'm hoping someone out there could offer some help with this if possible, or point me in the right direction. Thanks, Jim