Hello Brian, it was previously on version 1.31, I've upgraded it to the latest version, hoping that it will resolve all issues. :)
I've checked PHPMyAdmin, and they gave me access to it, and it shows the same article perfectly fine, without any weird characters, after I've changed encoding from latin1 to UTF-8.
But on the wiki itself, a character is shown incorrectly still. Is there any way where I can trigger MediaWiki to rebuild the database and show things correctly?
Looking forward to your response. :)
Best regards, Zoran
суб, 10. сеп 2022. у 01:57 Brian Wolff bawolff@gmail.com је написао/ла:
ä is what you get when you take ä encoded as UTF-8 and interpret it as ISO-8859-1. So what probably happened, is that some text that was encoded as UTF-8 was treated as if it was ISO-8859-1/windows1252 and (unessearily) converted to UTF-8.
Common causes of this sort of thing:
- Very very old wiki from before MediaWiki adopted UTF-8 that wasn't
upgraded properly. (I think MW adopted UTF-8 before MediaWiki 1.5, so it would have to be truly ancient).
- Restoring a DB from backup with some wrong options related to charset
- converting the charset of DB columns if they were originally mislabeled.
If its the entire DB that is broken, I think the easiest fix might be to take a DB dump, and use the iconv command line tool to convert UTF-8 -> windows-1252 (To undo one layer of conversion) and then import the result as if it was UTF-8.
-- brian.
On Thu, Sep 8, 2022 at 3:13 AM Zoran Dori zorandori4444@gmail.com wrote:
Hello, I'm working on one wiki which shows characters in a weird way. UTF-8 is used for encoding, so I believe that it isn't an issue.
You can take a look here Statik A – Sub Bavaria (sub-bavaria.de) http://www.sub-bavaria.de/w/index.php?title=Statik_A, so you can better understand what I'm talking about.
Could you please point me to something that I should look for, so I can fix this issue? Wiki was previously on version 1.31, I've upgraded it to 1.38.
Thanks for your help and understanding!
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