Any way to get the forum software to allow the Apple Sign? We will be needing it more and more

[Ken Sp.]

When I try to post using the Apple Logo, option-shift-k it show as the Apple logo in preview, but when I try to post I get this

Phorum Database Error

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Error:

Illegal mix of collations (latin1_swedish_ci,IMPLICIT) and (utf8_general_ci,COERCIBLE) for operation '=' (1267): SELECT message_id FROM phorum_messages WHERE forum_id = 1 AND author ='Ken Sp.' AND subject ='Re: So what was the white building all about?' AND body ='All the iPhone and Watch \"hands on\" demos were in there.' AND datestamp > 1410301778
Backtrace:

Function phorum_database_error called at
{path to Phorum}/include/db/mysql/mysql.php:166
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Function phorum_db_interact called at
{path to Phorum}/include/db/mysql.php:895
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Function phorum_db_post_message called at
{path to Phorum}/include/posting/action_post.php:116
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Function include called at
{path to Phorum}/posting.php:473
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