From d6427e777c6208485714db08902088e73459088d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: 3D-I <480857+3D-I@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 2020 00:04:36 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] [ticket/16665] Fix Emoji for strings in board settings

PHPBB3-16665
---
 phpBB/includes/acp/acp_board.php | 15 ++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/phpBB/includes/acp/acp_board.php b/phpBB/includes/acp/acp_board.php
index 968c9762cc..9001459928 100644
--- a/phpBB/includes/acp/acp_board.php
+++ b/phpBB/includes/acp/acp_board.php
@@ -582,7 +582,20 @@ class acp_board
 					continue;
 				}
 
-				$config->set($config_name, $config_value);
+				$config_name_ary = ['sitename', 'site_desc', 'site_home_text', 'board_index_text', 'board_disable_msg'];
+
+				if (in_array($config_name, $config_name_ary))
+				{
+					/**
+					 * Replace Emojis and other 4bit UTF-8 chars not allowed by MySQL to UCR/NCR.
+					 * Using their Numeric Character Reference's Hexadecimal notation.
+					 */
+					$config->set($config_name, utf8_encode_ucr($config_value));
+				}
+				else
+				{
+					$config->set($config_name, $config_value);
+				}
 
 				if ($config_name == 'allow_quick_reply' && isset($_POST['allow_quick_reply_enable']))
 				{