Brion Vibber wrote:
On some quick testing it looks like there are some encoding problems if UTF-8 isn't the locale charset; I'll try and get those worked out.
In the meantime, try setting LANG=en_US.UTF-8 and rerunning it.
Fixed version of mwdumper available: http://download.wikimedia.org/tools/
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)