Ben Bullock wrote:
On 08/06/06, Brion Vibber <brion(a)pobox.com>
wrote:
Can you:
1) Show the exact error message if there is one
2) Describe the exact difference between actual and expected behavior if there
isn't an error message
?
OK then. Apologies in advance for the length of this message.
I am running MediaWiki as follows:
Special:Version
* MediaWiki: 1.6.3
* PHP: 4.4.2 (apache)
* MySQL: 4.1.9
Wait a minute... your prior post talked about MySQL 4.0.16. Can you confirm that
this was incorrect, and that you are in fact running 4.1.9?
If so, any earlier advice I gave you based on the information you gave does not
apply to your situation.
If you're using MySQL 4.1, and the default schema, than you generally must
explicitly tell mysqldump to *not* perform bogus character set conversions. This
for instance could mean passing --default-character-set=latin1 to suppress the
bogus double UTF-8 conversion (which will corrupt your data irrecoverably).
You'll have to take a poke at your configuration and the database layout to
check what charset it thinks it's using natively.
-- brion vibber (brion @
pobox.com)