Hi Christof,
On Tue, 8 Nov 2005 14:49:11 +0100 Christof Damian christof@damian.net wrote:
On Tue, 08 Nov 2005, 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 had the same problem, when using the upgrade1_5.php and update.php scripts. After I put this into my LocalSettings.php it worked though:
$wgLegacyEncoding = 'ISO-8859-1';
Mmmh... this looks promising. But with this setting did you need to run upgrade1_5.php after all? Or did this simply tell mediawiki to "accept" iso-8859-1, and you left your DB untouched?
If I were sure this setting is going to be around forever, I would probably go this way, too. But, I am affraid iso-8859-1 might not be supported at all in a near future and, in this case we would just be putting off an inevitable upgrade to UTF-8... Do you know if this setting is official or is it an "undocumented feature"?
TIA
Andre