[Mediawiki-l] converting from latin1 to unicode?

Mon Oct 11 13:11:31 UTC 2004

Hello,

I'm running a German wiki configured using latin1. Trying to use unicode
instead of latin1, all special characters like ÄÖÜ etc. are broken in the
browser (and also in the database, if I take a look into the tables via
phpmyadmin). This effect can be undone by running the setup again
configuring latin1. Not being a specialist in such things it seems to me to
be more "modern" to use unicode. Is this correct, or should I just leave
latin1. If it would make sense to convert to unicode, how can I do this?
What are the consequences of using the one or the other?

Sorry for this questions of one mainly just beeing a "user" but who also
does some things on a server. Any hint, even in the form of hyperlinks to
further reading would be appreciated.

Nikolai