On 29/08/06, wiki@avenarius.sk wiki@avenarius.sk wrote:
Anyway, there hasn't been the slightest problem within phpBB itself after we converted it into UTF-8. The problem only occurs when MediaWiki tries to read phpBB's usernames table to allow users to sign in...
This is most definitely not my area, but it could well be that MediaWiki is expecting to find latin1 data, in which it wraps UTF-8 data regardless, and does some encoding/unencoding work each end. If it doesn't know that the database table it's reading is using UTF-8 collation, then it is bound to bugger up the usernames, no?
Rob Church