On Tuesday 18 November 2003 00:57, Tomasz Wegrzanowski wrote:
On Mon, Nov 17, 2003 at 03:28:46PM -0800, Brion Vibber wrote:
We'll have to go down to read-only mode while copying stuff over anyway, so this consolidates downtime. The conversion itself can be done by simply piping the database dump through iconv as it's being copied into the new db.
It would be better if numeric entities were converted too. The code is somewhere in Phase1->Phase2 conversion script, and in konwert program too.
Note also that cases like Я must NOT be converted, as it is their intention to appear like entities in displayed text. Perhaps it's the easiest not to convert & at all.
It would also be nice if one who does the conversion tell us what was the size of DB dump before and after the conversion :) I'm quite sure there'll be a decrease.
Would it also make sense to convert [[sr:%D0...]] interlanguage links for further decrease in size? I don't know is there a tool which could do it, but if not I could make a C program for it in five minutes.