On Tue, 08 Nov 2005 14:58:20 +0100
erchache2000 <erchache2000.enciclopedia(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I has similar problems, you can convert manually with
iconv, and after
try and pray for normal update.
On my system fails.
Do that:
iconv -f iso-8859-1 -t utf-8 olddatabase.sql > new_utf9_database.sql
and after try to update to 1.5.x from webbrowser directly, without
upgrade1_5.php script. I was trying to use it and fails too.
Other question are images, i dont know if you need to convert image
names too...
Tell me all result, im on same situation. All information are welcome...
Good Luck ;-D
Hi,
thks for the feedback. I did thought about iconv, but I wasn't sure
if it would break something else; according to your message, it's
really not that safe. But, what exactly do you mean with "failed"? Did
you still have missing page content after the conversion? Did it have
any side-effects?
TIA
Andre
Andre Oliveira da Costa escribió:
Hi Ruud,
On Tue, 08 Nov 2005 12:44:36 +0100
ruud habets <rhabets(a)kgv.nl> wrote:
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.
Sorry to hear that (OTOH I'm glad I am not an isolated case ;-)).
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.
Well, that's something -- at least the content is not entirely lost.
But, it should be a real PITA to recover "hidden" content this way.
To the developers: any chance the upgrade script can be fixed?
Ruud: if you make any progress, please post it here, I'll do the same.
TIA
Andre
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