Andreas Kotes wrote:
If you are upgrading an old installation you should probably specify "Deutsch (Latin-1)" for the language/charset rather than "Deutsch (Unicode)".
But I want to use Unicode ..
You'll want to convert your data from latin-1 to UTF-8, then. Dump, run it through iconv, and restore.
- how could I backup _only_ the pages from the database and scrap
everything else, so I could start with a freshly generated database?
Use mysqldump to backup anything you want from the database.
no. everything. anything I want would be a FAR smaller selection.
You can backup ask much or as little as you want.
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)