a couple of minor things accidentally left out of the last commit

[lhc/web/wiklou.git] / UPGRADE

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@@ -30,8 +30,17 @@ explode, or leave your database half-done or otherwise badly hurting.
 
 Among other changes, note that Latin-1 encoding (ISO-8859-1) is
 no longer supported. Latin-1 wikis will need to be upgraded to
-UTF-8, however the updater has not yet been updated to support
-this automatically.
+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
@@ -63,6 +72,11 @@ Note that you can disable/enable several other permissions by modifying
 this configuration array in your LocalSettings.php; see DefaultSettings.php
 for the complete default permission set.
 
+If using Memcached, you must enabled it differently now:
+  $wgUseMemCached = true;
+should be replaced with:
+  $wgMainCacheType = CACHE_MEMCACHED;
+
 
 === Web installer ===