-----Original Message----- From: mediawiki-l-bounces(a)Wikimedia.org [mailto:mediawiki-l-bounces@Wikimedia.org]On Behalf Of Brion Vibber Sent: Friday, June 03, 2005 4:17 AM To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] Converting to UTF-8 Carlton B wrote: it needs to Do you mean: * Your database's contents are in Latin-1, and output is marked with ISO-8859-1 encoding, but you'd prefer to be using UTF-8 instead. or * Your database's contents are in UTF-8, but output is marked with ISO-8859-1 encoding so everything displays incorrectly. ? If the latter, set $wgUseLatin1 = false in LocalSettings.php and clear the objectcache table. If the former, you'll need to do an unspecified mass conversion. The 1.5 upgrade will include some explicit support for this (as Latin-1 support is being dropped) but there's not currently a specific way of doing this. If you're not using any revision compression, you can dump your database out with mysqldump, convert it with iconv, and source it back. (Beware MySQL 4.1's conversions; use --charset option on mysqldump appropriately if so.) -- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)