Sulka Haro wrote:
> I'm trying to move a MediaWiki 1.16 instance from one hosting provider to
> other, and the move is breaking all page titles that have non-us ascii
> characters in them, in what looks like an UTF decoding problem. Strangely
> the page contents are fine after import, and I can create new pages that
> have scandinavian characters on the new provider without any issues, so I'm
> slightly baffled as to where the problem is.
>
> I'm doing the move using mysqldump / import, since the MediaWiki's
> importDump.php barfs on the new server when trying to import an XML dump
> ("XML-tuonti epäonnistui jäsennysvirheen takia. rivillä 1, sarakkeessa 1
> (tavu 3; "<mediawiki"): Empty document" - gotta love localized error
> messages).
>
> I tried reading the SQL and it looks to me like the database contents are
> encoded by MediaWiki to some "safe" format, so the problem should not be
> with Mysql?
>
> I can't find anything related after reading all the documentation I could
> find. The encoding issues that I can find refer to global encoding problems,
> not just with page titles.
>
> Any pointers where to look?
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Backing_up_a_wiki#Character_set
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:$wgDBmysql5
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