Yes, first, because phpFox is designed to work on any database encoding. PhpFox works using Unicode to store non-english characters. Thefore, the encoding does not matter :D
And second, because the historical element mentioned by steward.
data66 I have about ten sites I own and work on. All have different scripts except two phpfox sites. I did you what said and the problem was fixed. Thanks. That has to be the easiest phpfox fix ever. Feel free to merge this topic with the one that answers the question previously. Now that it is fixed I will delete the url in the first post for privacy reasons.