Re: Newbie Question: How to insert Chinese characters in an English document
so in short, kiatng, welcome to Tiki Community!
and please, follow a standard Upgrade process to Tiki 5.3 while forcing your db connection to be utf-8 and convert everywhere where you are allowed by tiki-install.php things to utf-8
Report back if any issues, and please, consider updating the Documentation pages if there is any missleading information there which doesn't comply with your own experience to fix your problem and these rough guidelines above.
Thanks!