The solution to this, crazy though it sounds, seems to be to open the mysqldump'd database file in MS Word and tell Word it is looking at UTF-8.
-Courtney -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Christensen, Courtney Sent: Monday, April 26, 2010 10:12 AM To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list Subject: [Mediawiki-l] 1.13.2 to 1.15 upgrade on Windows, title character problems Hi All, We are in the process of upgrading our installations from 1.13 and 1.9 to 1.15 and we are having a little issue with page titles degrading. When we dump the live database and move it to an acceptance machine and run the upgrade.php script on it we find that the characters like alpha have been changing into less readable strings. We have tried: mysqldump (with no options) mysqldump --default-character-set=latin1 mysqldump --default-character-set=utf8 We have tried post dump conversion scripts, including Charco (as recommended in the MW Manual.) Any other pointers would be really helpful. Thanks, Courtney Christensen _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
