Jeff Lane wrote:
We're currently upgrading one of our 1.4.12 installations up to 1.5.8, before we upgrade to 1.6.5.
Under 1.4.12, we have the setting "$wgUseLatin1 = false;" in LocalSettings.php, which the help page http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:$wgUseLatin1 (very) briefly describes as "Enable ISO-8859-1 compatibility mode".
Is this still necessary under 1.5.8? The help page says it's still in use, but it was not in the default 1.5 LocalSettings.php file.
This is obsolete, and is used only by the alternate 1.4->1.5 partial upgrader which includes some limited ability to automatically convert old database entries.
MediaWiki 1.5 and above use UTF-8 only.
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