https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=32207
--- Comment #3 from Christian Boltz <[email protected]> --- Let me post an update on this: The problem is that the column contains utf8, but is labeled as latin1. I could fix this by modifying the charset in the database. The trick is to change the field to varbinary first and then to varchar utf8. The varbinary step is needed to avoid that MySQL does an automatic charset conversion which would result in double-encoded utf8. In SQL, this means: alter table t modify column f varbinary(255); alter table t modify column f varchar(255) charset utf8; That's the easy part. I then found out that I had this problem in various tables and columns, so it took me some hours to do this fix on all of them. To sum it up: This looks an upgrade problem from a (very?) old version. AFAIK the openSUSE wiki was hit by a similar problem (sorry, I don't know exactly in which MediaWiki version). -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug. You are watching all bug changes. _______________________________________________ Wikibugs-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l
