[Mediawiki-l] Own Wiki / Customization / UTF-8 / ISO-8859-1

Tue Aug 10 16:28:07 UTC 2004

Hi!

okay, I've head enough headaches, now I'm asking:

I've got a recent CVS-version, I did an install with an older copy, I'm
running a recent apache and php4 on a recent Debian unstable, and I'm
freaking out. The latter has at least a little bit to do with mediawiki.

Main problem: I set the language to german, and the messages are in
german - but all umlauts (read: special characters) are encoded
ISO-8859-1; while mediawiki (correctly, in my opinion) thinks and tells
(via meta http-equiv) we're using UTF-8 - overriding Apache/PHP saying
we're doing ISO-8859-1 .. a little bit shizophrenic after all.

I've had a look at LanguageDe.php, and (almost, looks like a bug) all
characters there are UTF-8-encoded .. the characters in de.lang aren't,
but this doesn't seem to matter too much? I don't know.

I tried chaning LanguageDe.php and running rebuildMessages.php, and get
warnings as well as errors:

---- 8< ----

apache:/var/www/slop.flatline.de/fswiki/maintenance# php4 rebuildMessages.php

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in
/var/www/slop.flatline.de/fswiki/includes/User.php on line 90

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in
/var/www/slop.flatline.de/fswiki/includes/User.php on line 90

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in
/var/www/slop.flatline.de/fswiki/includes/User.php on line 90

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in
/var/www/slop.flatline.de/fswiki/includes/Setup.php on line 250

Fatal error: Undefined class name 'database' in
/var/www/slop.flatline.de/fswiki/includes/LoadBalancer.php on line 151

---- >8 ----

.. adding require_once("Database.php"); to LoadBalancer.php fixes the
error and allows me to run the script - I choose '2', delete old
messages and rebuild them from scratch. changes NOTHING, not even a text
I changed completely. quite frustrating.

So, my questions:

- where could the problem with ISO-8859-1 characters in an UTF-8 page
  come from? I guess it's ISO-8859-1 characters in the database.
- how could I backup _only_ the pages from the database and scrap
  everything else, so I could start with a freshly generated database?
- how can I customize other things? i.e. the menues, the picture, stuff
  like that ...

while I understand mediawiki is designed for wikipedia some
documentation for these tasks might be deemed helpful by other users
running their own wikis, too :)

kind regards,

   Count

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