On Mon, Nov 11, 2013 at 4:17 PM, Andru Vallance <an...@tinymighty.com> wrote: > I'm setting up a new wiki installation and running into some problems with > garbage characters showing up due to mismatched character sets. The wiki in > question is here: http://wikiausland.de/bookshop/Hauptseite > > New articles written in are fine and display in UTF-8 as expected, but the > owner has copied over some content, presumably from an old wiki or MS Word, > and it seems like it's in ISO-8859-1 and thus showing a heap of question > marks for all the umlauts etc… does anyone know how I can go about converting > a page from ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8 easily enough? > > I've tried setting $wgLegacyEncoding to 'ISO-8859-1' [1] in the hope it might > do the conversion for me on article save, but no joy. Are there any other > options?
I guess he copied over into a wiki that was already utf8 and so the row was marked as being utf8 already when saved. $wgLegacyEncoding should do nothing if the row is already utf8. You could fix this with a bot or possibly by changing the flag in the DB (idk how safe that is...). But the very first thing you need is a list of pages that need fixing. Maybe that's just as simple as listing that particular user's contribs. -Jeremy _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
