I have little sympathy for people who think that know know only answer for all problems. I try for two months using utf-2 with polish chcarcters, and all what I've got whas a mess in some fields. Believe me, it wasn't my first idea to sweech encoding.
utf-
2 (if that exists at all) is not being supported in coppermine. Only utf-
8 get's supported. Never heard of utf-
2.
As I told you: you shouldn't have switched from utf-8 to your proprietary encoding in the first place. If you have issues switching back, then ask questions on that subject.
There is lot of small nerving bugs in the program. F.e. If you use bridge for most popular forums and before you'd made new group for some people, after changing back those people would be invisible, and is no more groups then default. (sorry for my english)
So now this thread has become a rant about missing features or potential bugs of coppermine? OK, then please let us see your code contribution or at least a valid report on that issue. I've never seen that "bug" reported.
In most popular forum there are possibility of making your own bb code - there is always special page for preparing. In Copermine it is imposible.
Coppermine is not a BBS by the way: the focus of the developers is not on textual content, but on the presentation of images, because that's what most people use coppermine for.
We believe that those bbcode editors you refer to are bloat features for a gallery. Most galleries I'm aware of don't have such a feature. We don't compare Coppermine against forums.