I'm setting up a new wiki installation and running into some problems with garbage
characters showing up due to mismatched character sets. The wiki in question is here:
http://wikiausland.de/bookshop/Hauptseite
New articles written in are fine and display in UTF-8 as expected, but the owner has
copied over some content, presumably from an old wiki or MS Word, and it seems like
it's in ISO-8859-1 and thus showing a heap of question marks for all the umlauts etc…
does anyone know how I can go about converting a page from ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8 easily
enough?
I've tried setting $wgLegacyEncoding to 'ISO-8859-1' [1] in the hope it might
do the conversion for me on article save, but no joy. Are there any other options?
Any tips would be greatly appreciated!
Andru
[1]
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:$wgLegacyEncoding