Riccardo Veraldi wrote:
> Hello,
> I'd need to set charset for my mediawiki 1.15.3 to latin1 instead of 
> utf8 default
> 
> this because I cannot convert my mysql DB to utf8.
> All tables in mysql DB are set to latin1.
> if I convert it to utf8 I have key lenghtness errors.
> 
> Actually special characters are mangled in my mediawiki pages since I 
> upgraded from an old mediawiki version 1.5.*
> to version 1.15.3
> 
> how can I Solve this ?
> is there a way to set latin1 charset in mediawiki 1.15.3 ?
> 
> thanks
> 
> Rick

You can't. MediaWiki will always work with utf-8.
However, note that MediaWiki can also work with utf-8 text stored in
text fields that msysql thinks are latin1 ($wgDBmysql5 = false).

If the key lenghts are not appropiate, change them.
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Errors_and_Symptoms#Specified_key_was_too_long



_______________________________________________
MediaWiki-l mailing list
[email protected]
https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l

Reply via email to