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 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
for what it's worth: you are not alone ...
i tried an online conversion of my database (http://www.kgv.nl) but was unsuccesfull. i'm going to try it localy, see where that leads us to.
as for the empty pages. they are still there. if you access tot phpmyadmin or any other mysql frontend, look into the content table, you will see the content there.
Ruud