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
An error results in this kind of stuff:
[[es:Br�coli]][[pt:Br�colis]]
Fred