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

Thu Nov 10 06:48:29 UTC 2005

Brion Vibber wrote:

> Andre Oliveira da Costa wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 09 Nov 2005 13:43:10 -0800
>> Brion Vibber <brion at pobox.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Andre Oliveira da Costa wrote:
>>>
>>>> Ok, got it. Any chance this iso-8859-1 --> utf-8 problem will get 
>>>> fixed on
>>>> future releases?
>>>
>>> Well, it worked fine for us, so I'm not sure what there is to fix?
>>
>>
>> Mmmh... "Houston, we got a problem" ;-)
>>
>> Not sure why it didn't work for me, then. Does my description of the 
>> problem
>> on bug #3898 [http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3898] 
>> give you
>> any clue about what could have failed on my upgrade (and, judging by 
>> some of
>> the replies, on others' as well)? If not, what additional info can I 
>> provide
>> to help you track down the problem?
>
>
> * Operating system and version
> * PHP version
> * PHP configuration
> * Which PHP modules are installed
> * MySQL version
> * MySQL configuration
> * LocalSettings.php
> * Any other modifications or settings on MediaWiki
> * Exact, step-by-step procedure you used for running the upgrade
> * If possible, sample data files
>
> Chars being replaced by commas is not something I've ever seen.
>
> -- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
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I have tracked down (actually a co-worker has the credits for this) my 
reason for failing to upgrade to this:
- i have no access to a shell prompt to start php scripts manually
- my mysql engine is of version 4.0. so there is no ALTER DATABASE 
command to change from latin1 to utf8 (and no, i don't know when my 
provider will upgrade this version)

ruud habets