Hi y'all Background I have an old WIki in ISO-8859-1format and tried to upgrade to 1.5.4. I ran the upgrade1_5.php which stated should convert to UTF-8. The problem is that it didn't. upn closer inspection of the script it was clear that the global variable $wgUseLatin1 should have a non false value for it to convert enything. In an attempt to minimize side effects I set $wgUseLatin1=true in the subrotine that does the conversion. This gave me converted pagenames, but the page contents were still ISO. Strengthened by my success I simply applied the conversion subroutine on the data the comes from the cur.text field. This seems to have worked, as far as I can tell my data is now properly UTF-8 formatted. Question 1. Mediawiki is supposed to convert old ISO format article text to UTF-8 on the fly, right. How is this triggered, Do I need to set $wgUseLatin1 to get it to work or what. 2. I now have a converted wiki, converted as descibed above is there a downside my aproach. Does some text not get converted. ------------------------------------------------- Anders Nygård Operations Specialist Gl. Køge Landevej 55 2500 Valby Denmark Phone 45-7730 12 00 Direct 45-7730 12 74 Mobile 45-4144 38 77 www.uni2.dk