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

[erchache2000]

I think.....

Because is OFFICIALLY UNDOCUMENTED, i dont have a specific url where i 
can know how to convert from iso to utf. (<jokemode> Yes im a lammer and 
what!... ;-P</jokemode>)
 
If you convert your database into UTF-8 you dont need to use 
upgrade1_5.php script, so you can upgrade 1.5.2 directly from 
webbrowser. I dont have any lost information using iconv, but i dont try 
it with images on file system, database is a thing, and files into 
/image dir other, you know? ;-)

And yes, to pass to 1.5.x is inevitable because is OBLIGATORY. Direct 
show problems....

Try to use iconv and upgrade directly like the braves.....send me all 
information, please. All information are welcome....

Good Luck, again....

p.d.: At this point im thinking to setup a "fucked by mediawiki software 
upgrades" forum....Programmers, dont be furious with me please, you are 
make a good work, but do all programmers do, dont document your 
programs....When open software will be open software with open 
documentation :-S....

Andre Oliveira da Costa escribió:

>Hi Christof,
>
>On Tue, 8 Nov 2005 14:49:11 +0100
>Christof Damian <christof at damian.net> wrote:
>
>  
>
>>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';
>>    
>>
>
>Mmmh... this looks promising. But with this setting did you need to run
>upgrade1_5.php after all? Or did this simply tell mediawiki to "accept"
>iso-8859-1, and you left your DB untouched? 
>
>If I were sure this setting is going to be around forever, I would
>probably go this way, too. But, I am affraid iso-8859-1 might not be
>supported at all in a near future and, in this case we would just be
>putting off an inevitable upgrade to UTF-8... Do you know if this
>setting is official or is it an "undocumented feature"?
>
>TIA
>
>Andre
>
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