Christian Lerrahn wrote:
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?
I'm having the same problem, or something very similar. I recently upgraded
a server using latin1_bin from 1.4.12 to 1.5.8 to update the database, then
to 1.8.2. Everything is running now except none of the interwiki links work.
I didn't have any success changing the mw_interwiki table to
latin1_swedish_ci, though it's possible I'm not doing it correctly. My
knowledge of MySQL is admittedly not very deep.
I can see through the archives that you've had this problem for several
months with no reply, unfortunately.
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