ater trying to move from latin1 to utf8 and conerting enconding using 
sed I ahev this error:

 mysql -u root -p < wikidb.190510-4.utf8.mysql
Enter password:
ERROR 1062 (23000) at line 237: Duplicate entry '0-Procom_Netforce_3000' 
for key 2

the latin1 file instead works... looks like something gets mangled




Platonides wrote:
> 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
>
>
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