[Mediawiki-l] MySQL character set problem

Brion Vibber brion at pobox.com
Thu Apr 7 08:18:22 UTC 2005


Plamen Gradinarov wrote:
> MySQL 4.1.10a with default-character-set=cp1251 in my.cnf
> No errors while importing bg.wikipedia. Opening any imported page returns database error, but new added entries appear correctly, and all messages + navigation are in Bulgarian:
> http://encyclopedia.novdom.org
>
> Comment the default-character-set=cp1251 in my.cnf and all imported data pop up.
>
> Any suggestions how to launch the bg wikimedia import with cp1251 preserved in my.cnf.

Install MySQL 4.0 and use that. :P

Or, try to figure out how to temporarily change the defaults or alter
the table definitions in the dumps. See MySQL documentation on
dev.mysql.com.

-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
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