If you can upgrade to 1.5.x. Please write your story here: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Upgrading_MediaWiki
I have a spanish wiki and iso conversión are more difficult.
bye.
erchache2000 escribió:
Its needless to say to make BACKUPS of all your database data and images before apply any change.
1- make a dump of your database. 2- make a cp from your database.sql to isodatabase.sql, to take a backup to apply utf8 conversion. 3- apply iconv: iconv -f iso-8859-1 -t utf-8 isodatabase.sql > utf8database.sql 4- make a cp from your utf8database.sql to test.sql, to take a backup to upgrade to 1.5.x. 4- Make upgrade on webbrowser with test.sql 5- If everything is good, your system are on 1.5.x version. (but on my specific system fails....)
Well, i think this is correct, its all i know about the process...
Good Luck...
Andre Oliveira da Costa escribió:
Hi Christof,
On Tue, 8 Nov 2005 14:49:11 +0100 Christof Damian christof@damian.net wrote:
On Tue, 08 Nov 2005, Andre Oliveira da Costa wrote:
Hi,
we are running mediawiki v1.4.0 with a iso-8859-1 DB, and as we tried to upgrade, locale conversion from iso-8859-1 to UT-8 didn't work as all latin1 chars like çéõ etc. got replaced by ",". This would be "only" a PITA if we had to manually convert accented chars by hand, but it turned out that the converstion of URLs with latin1 chars sent some pages into a blackhole -- they simply seem to disappear.
I had the same problem, when using the upgrade1_5.php and update.php scripts. After I put this into my LocalSettings.php it worked though: $wgLegacyEncoding = 'ISO-8859-1';
Mmmh... this looks promising. But with this setting did you need to run upgrade1_5.php after all? Or did this simply tell mediawiki to "accept" iso-8859-1, and you left your DB untouched? If I were sure this setting is going to be around forever, I would probably go this way, too. But, I am affraid iso-8859-1 might not be supported at all in a near future and, in this case we would just be putting off an inevitable upgrade to UTF-8... Do you know if this setting is official or is it an "undocumented feature"?
TIA
Andre
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