Hi Ruud,
On Tue, 08 Nov 2005 12:44:36 +0100
ruud habets <rhabets(a)kgv.nl> wrote:
Andre Oliveira da Costa wrote:
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
for what it's worth: you are not alone ...
i tried an online conversion of my database (
http://www.kgv.nl) but was
unsuccesfull. i'm going to try it localy, see where that leads us to.
Sorry to hear that (OTOH I'm glad I am not an isolated case ;-)).
as for the empty pages. they are still there. if you
access tot
phpmyadmin or any other mysql frontend, look into the content table, you
will see the content there.
Well, that's something -- at least the content is not entirely lost.
But, it should be a real PITA to recover "hidden" content this way.
To the developers: any chance the upgrade script can be fixed?
Ruud: if you make any progress, please post it here, I'll do the same.
TIA
Andre
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Andre Oliveira da Costa
(costa(a)tecgraf.puc-rio.br)