Problem solved thanks!

Just needed the same default charset on import :-)

On 10/07/14 16:36, Aran wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I've recently had a server disaster and had to recover my wiki from
> backup dumps. But after importing all the special characters are mangled
> causing many links to be broken and pages that have special characters
> in the titles are missing!
>
> Here's an example of a page with many broken characters and red links
> showing for pages with special characters in the titles.
> http://www.organicdesign.co.nz/2014_Holiday_in_Brazil
>
> I'm sure this must be able to be fixed because when I look at the DB
> content from the shell by selecting content from the text table all the
> special characters are rendering with no problem...?
>
> I noticed that the mysqdump command was using
> --default-character-set=latin1 which may be a legacy setting now?
>
> Help much appreciated
> Thanks a lot,
> Aran
>
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