Hi, you have a Problem with encoding, There are several ways to solve this. DO A BACKUP!!! The easiest way is to be sure, that all encoding settings are set to UTF-8. * Locales * Set in LocalSettings.php to $wgOutputEncoding = 'UTF-8' Please check which variables are set in your database and check in which character set you db is. (SHOW VARIABLES LIKE '%character%'; and SHOW VARIABLES LIKE '%collation%';) If not create the DB new (before create a dump) with following additional command create database $DB CHARACTER SET utf8 COLLATE utf8_general_ci; This was the first step! The second one is to try to convert the mysqldump with iconv see man iconv (don't know it by heart) The last step which is to replace all malformed Strings with new good strings in the dump. Before doing this; please double check, if the database is completly in UTF-8. DO A BACKUP!!! To replace strings do following: sed -i s/"ü"/ü/ $DUMP sed -i s/"ä"/ä/g $DUMP sed -i s/"ö"/ö/g $DUMP sed -i s/"ß"/ß/g $DUMP sed -i s/"Ä"/Ä/g $DUMP sed -i s/"„"/"„"/g $DUMP sed -i s/"“"/"“"/g $DUMP sed -i s/"–"/"-"/g $DUMP This works finally for me, maybe you have to adapt these strings to you needs. You find out the values with the tool less NOT with vim or cat. Regards Bastian On 11.08.2011 18:11, Norbert Schneider wrote: