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| Hello, I've got a database on a MySQL 4.0x installation which produces wrong characters in a (current but non-beta as of today) MediaWiki installation whenever German umlauts are used. Currently, I'd like to avoid upgrading the MySQL version to 4.1.1+ (with which I could change the charsets using the alter database command). Since I can't use the alter database command my plan is to find out which charset the database is set to and adjust the database data to this charset with a newer version then re-import the modified data. I suppose that's a pretty nasty hack (or probably might not work at all), so my question would be twofold: 1) Which charset are databases pre-4.1.1 set to (as in, before you could apparently set charsets)? 2) Is there a more elegant/easier/better way to make the umlauts display correctly? Thanks, Thomas |