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

[Christof Damian]

On Tue, 08 Nov 2005, 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 had the same problem, when using the upgrade1_5.php and update.php
scripts. After I put this into my LocalSettings.php it worked though: 

  $wgLegacyEncoding = 'ISO-8859-1';

christof
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