[Mediawiki-l] iso-8859-1 conversion to UTF-8 failed during upgrade from 1.4.0 to 1.5.2

Tue Nov 8 11:44:36 UTC 2005

Andre Oliveira da Costa wrote:

>Hi,
>
>we are running mediawiki v1.4.0 with a iso-8859-1 DB, and as we tried
>to upgrade, locale conversion from iso-8859-1 to UT-8 didn't  work as
>all latin1 chars like çéõ etc. got replaced by ",". This would be
>"only" a PITA if we had to manually convert accented chars by
>hand, but it turned out that the converstion of URLs with latin1 chars
>sent some pages into a blackhole -- they simply seem to disappear.
>
>I filed a bug about this (bug #3898
>http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3898), please check
>the link for more details. But I was hoping anyone on this ML would
>know how to work around this...
>
>Any of you guys had to do such conversion? If so, did it work 100%?
>Until I can successfully convert the DB locale, we're stuck with 1.4.0 =
>(
>
>Any help will be much appreciated.
>
>TIA
>
>Andre
>
>  
>
for what it's worth: you are not alone ...

i tried an online conversion of my database (http://www.kgv.nl) but was 
unsuccesfull. i'm going to try it localy, see where that leads us to.

as for the empty pages. they are still there. if you access tot 
phpmyadmin or any other mysql frontend, look into the content table, you 
will see the content there.

Ruud