[Mediawiki-l] iso-8859-1 conversion to UTF-8 failed during upgrade from 1.4.0 to 1.5.2

[Andre Oliveira da Costa]

Hi,

we are running mediawiki v1.4.0 with a iso-8859-1 DB, and as we tried
to upgrade, locale conversion from iso-8859-1 to UT-8 didn't  work as
all latin1 chars like çéõ etc. got replaced by ",". This would be
"only" a PITA if we had to manually convert accented chars by
hand, but it turned out that the converstion of URLs with latin1 chars
sent some pages into a blackhole -- they simply seem to disappear.

I filed a bug about this (bug #3898
http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3898), please check
the link for more details. But I was hoping anyone on this ML would
know how to work around this...

Any of you guys had to do such conversion? If so, did it work 100%?
Until I can successfully convert the DB locale, we're stuck with 1.4.0 =
(

Any help will be much appreciated.

TIA

Andre

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Andre Oliveira da Costa
(costa at tecgraf.puc-rio.br)