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converting mediawiki mysql database from latin1 to utf8

Monday, August 31, 2009

Sometime after upgrading our copy of MediaWiki from the antique version I’d had to run, to the shiny latest version, I noticed (well, some of the wiki users noticed first…) that there were some borked characters – accented French characters, Mandarin characters, and fancy schmancy “smart quotes” were displaying as gobbledygook gibberish text. Smelled like a UTF8-related issue – IIRC, MediaWiki swi...


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