Surely this is a problem with MySQL and not mediawiki? Perhaps you should try the MySQL forums or mailing lists -----Original Message----- From: mediawiki-l-bounces(a)Wikimedia.org [mailto:mediawiki-l-bounces@Wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of judi chen Sent: 24 November 2005 04:18 To: mediawiki-l(a)Wikimedia.org Subject: [Mediawiki-l] my wiki site is in Chinese, backup and restore problem Hi all, I have asked question about backup and restore problem for quite a while. My site is in Chinese and I am using zh-cn which is the simplified Chinese. so I guess when I use mysqldump to backup the database, I sould do the following mysqldump -u root -p --single-transaction --default-character-set= gb2312 chpwikidb > backup.sql But then I got the following msg on the command line, mysqldump: Character set '' is not a compiled character set and is not specified in the '/usr/share/mysql/charsets/Index.xml' file Can someone let me know how to fix this problem thanks jc __________________________________ Yahoo! Music Unlimited Access over 1 million songs. Try it free. http://music.yahoo.com/unlimited/ _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l(a)Wikimedia.org http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l