[Mediawiki-l] UTF-8 problems in Mediawiki

[Christian Lerrahn]

Hi,
my Mediawiki 1.7 can't display any UTF-8 characters. My MySQL server
defaults to UTF-8 and my tables usually have collation latin1_bin. This
is exactly how things were set up when I installed Mediawiki. However,
my interwiki links did not work until I changed the collation of
column iw_prefix to latin1_swedish_ci. Even now I cannot use any UTF-8
characters in Mediawiki. I have another install that runs most columns
(not all) on latin1_swedish_ci and there UTF-8 seems to work fine. I'm
now wondering if I have to manually change my columns on the
non-working install to latin1_swedish_ci or if there is also a way of
getting this to work with the latin1_bin columns.

Any hints on this?

Cheers,
Christian