ä is what you get when you take ä encoded as UTF-8 and interpret it as
ISO-8859-1. So what probably happened, is that some text that was encoded
as UTF-8 was treated as if it was ISO-8859-1/windows1252 and (unessearily)
converted to UTF-8.
Common causes of this sort of thing:
- Very very old wiki from before MediaWiki adopted UTF-8 that wasn't
upgraded properly. (I think MW adopted UTF-8 before MediaWiki 1.5, so it
would have to be truly ancient).
- Restoring a DB from backup with some wrong options related to charset
- converting the charset of DB columns if they were originally mislabeled.
If its the entire DB that is broken, I think the easiest fix might be to
take a DB dump, and use the iconv command line tool to convert UTF-8 ->
windows-1252 (To undo one layer of conversion) and then import the result
as if it was UTF-8.
--
brian.
On Thu, Sep 8, 2022 at 3:13 AM Zoran Dori <zorandori4444(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Hello,
I'm working on one wiki which shows characters in a weird way. UTF-8 is
used for encoding, so I believe that it isn't an issue.
You can take a look here Statik A – Sub Bavaria (sub-bavaria.de)
<http://www.sub-bavaria.de/w/index.php?title=Statik_A>, so you can better
understand what I'm talking about.
Could you please point me to something that I should look for, so I can
fix this issue?
Wiki was previously on version 1.31, I've upgraded it to 1.38.
Thanks for your help and understanding!
Best regards,
Zoran
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