Hi y'all
Background
I have an old WIki in ISO-8859-1format and tried to upgrade to 1.5.4. I
ran the upgrade1_5.php which stated should convert to UTF-8. The problem
is that it didn't. upn closer inspection of the script it was clear that
the global variable $wgUseLatin1 should have a non false value for it to
convert enything. In an attempt to minimize side effects I set
$wgUseLatin1=true in the subrotine that does the conversion. This gave me
converted pagenames, but the page contents were still ISO. Strengthened by
my success I simply applied the conversion subroutine on the data the
comes from the cur.text field. This seems to have worked, as far as I can
tell my data is now properly UTF-8 formatted.
Question
1. Mediawiki is supposed to convert old ISO format article text to UTF-8
on the fly, right. How is this triggered, Do I need to set $wgUseLatin1 to
get it to work or what.
2. I now have a converted wiki, converted as descibed above is there a
downside my aproach. Does some text not get converted.
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Anders Nygård
Operations Specialist
Gl. Køge Landevej 55
2500 Valby Denmark
Phone 45-7730 12 00
Direct 45-7730 12 74
Mobile 45-4144 38 77
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