Fernando M. M. wrote:
Here is what i'm trying. I go to phpmyadmin on the old server.
Forget phpMyAdmin. The export function completely breaks non-ASCII encodings for MediaWiki. I think this happens because MediaWiki uses a Latin1 charset to store UTF-8.
All my problems regarding export/import MediaWiki databases were fixed once I started using mysqldump command-line utility to do the dumps.