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irmtfan,
FINALLY! I opened xoops/class/database/mysqldatabase.php
under the function connect:
+ mysql_query("SET CHARACTER SET utf8", $this->conn);
There is no need to do table charset convertion as I was using utf8 previously in 4.1.0.
Once again, Thank you!!!
The only thing left is why 4.1.7 not working with the smarty code? I really don't know, but I think XOOPS core dev. should look into it(if they are interested to dig)