I'm new to MediaWiki and I'd like some help about character encoding.
I followed the MediaWiki installation instructions I was able to find on the Web. They said to use latin-1 encoding on MySQL.
MediaWiki actually works with this configuration. But there is a strange behavior.
If I open the table in the MySQL administration tool, the accented characters do not display correctly. They seem to be stored in some other encoding. Maybe UTF-8?
If I insert data on the table using another program, the accented characters look good in the MySQL administration tool, but don't display correctly in MediaWiki.
It seems that although the database is using latin-1 encoding, MediaWiki is internally using some other.
I'm concerned about two things: 1. That MediaWiki encoding will conflict with MySQL encoding and some corruption may occur. 2. That I will not be able to insert data on the tables using programs that I write. I need to do this to fill the user table.
I will appreciate any help about this.
Thanks!