Hiram Clawson wrote:
Good Afternoon MediaWiki Fans:
I'm migrating our installations to a new machine with upgraded everything. I'm wondering of the MySQL character set choices are important.
My older installation is: MySQL 5.0.22-standard and the new one is: 5.5.11
(...)
Is anything in the system going to care that some latin1 types are now utf8 ?
--Hiram
No. You can set the collation per table, and MediaWiki can use latin1, binary or utf8 (it needs to be configured correctly). You only need to be careful with not corrupting the dump. You may need to set --default-character-set See http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Backing_up_a_wiki#Character_set