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 filed a bug about this (bug #3898 http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3898), please check the link for more details. But I was hoping anyone on this ML would know how to work around this...
Any of you guys had to do such conversion? If so, did it work 100%? Until I can successfully convert the DB locale, we're stuck with 1.4.0 = (
Any help will be much appreciated.
TIA
Andre