From 2b415cdcc6ea1a94da774b4b40b978755c0ad6b8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Erik Moeller Date: Sun, 9 Oct 2005 05:42:16 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] note on manual conversion to utf-8 --- UPGRADE | 8 ++++++++ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+) diff --git a/UPGRADE b/UPGRADE index dffa094f11..c2fa2c53aa 100644 --- a/UPGRADE +++ b/UPGRADE @@ -34,6 +34,14 @@ UTF-8; an experimental command-line upgrade helper script, 'upgrade1_5.php', can do this -- run it prior to 'update.php' or the web upgrader. +If you absolutely cannot make the UTF-8 upgrade work, you can try +doing it by hand: dump your old database, convert the dump file +using iconv as described here: +http://portal.suse.com/sdb/en/2004/05/jbartsh_utf-8.html +and then reimport it. You can also convert filenames using convmv, +but note that the old directory hashes will no longer be valid, +so you will also have to move them to new destinations. + Message changes: * A number of additional UI messages have been chagned from HTML to wikitext, and will need to be manually fixed if customized. -- 2.20.1