Hi,
I wanted to upgrade from an 1.3.9 Mediawiki to a 1.5b3 MediaWiki. All went well except all Articles which contained a german special character, were not imported at all. (Well at least from the user's point of view, cause i can find them in the Database). Is this a usual problem, where there also is a usual solution, or do i have to do it the hard way (debugging, analizing the database-article-name, the link-name, the article-name ... eventually run a script that replaces all theese with some 'correct ones') ?
Thanx, Raul Gigea
Gigea Mircea Raul wrote:
I wanted to upgrade from an 1.3.9 Mediawiki to a 1.5b3 MediaWiki. All went well except all Articles which contained a german special character, were not imported at all. (Well at least from the user's point of view, cause i can find them in the Database). Is this a usual problem, where there also is a usual solution, or do i have to do it the hard way (debugging, analizing the database-article-name, the link-name, the article-name ... eventually run a script that replaces all theese with some 'correct ones') ?
Are you using Latin-1 encoding (ISO 8859-1)? This is no longer supported. Please see RELEASE-NOTES and UPGRADING. There is a maintenance script to support conversion, which can be run on a 1.4-schema wiki to apply necessary conversion if you've configured it correctly.
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
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