>>>> C <smaug42@opensuse.org> 12/2/2011 8:37 AM >>>
>On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 16:26, Matthew Ehle <mehle@novell.com> wrote:
>>>Just a thought on this... Since this recent MedaiWiki update was an
>>>upgrade from an old MediaWiki instance running on an existing/old
>>>MySQL database... is it possible that some of the tables were set to
>>>Latin1 and contained UTF-8 encoded data?
>> Yes, you are on the right path with this.
>
>Aha :-) Well, the good thing is if you know the root of the problem,
>it's usually fixable... maybe painful to fix, but fixable in the end.
I really hope so.  I hate wasting people's hard work, even if it is just a few days.

>> environment.  It *almost* worked.  Unfortunately, we are having a few other
>> issues that I have to look at.  But yes, you are correct in that this is 95%
>> of the problem.
>
>Almost - I know that one.  Up until this summer, I was the lead server
>admin on the OpenOffice.org wiki, and backed myself into many creative
>corners while doing upgrades.

When looking at the English wiki, I think I found the problem.  Definitely an issue in the MW upgrade path, because the "new" wikis (en and de) actually do not have the problem with UTF8 page titles.  Certain tables on there have a different encoding than the other wikis.  Surprise, surprise :)

>> I'm trying this all out on our staging wikis.  I imported the production
>> data down to rustage.opensuse.org, and that is where I am doing most of my
>> work.  I managed to get the titles to at least appear correctly, but we are
>> having some other issues as well.  I haven't given up hope though.
>
>Are the other issues known?  I mean.. are you still trying to figure
>them out, or have a fix in process?  Just curious.  I'm no super
>expert on Wikis and MySQL, but I have bumbled into some oddities in
>the 5 years or so I was administering the OOo Wiki.
They are known, but there is no fix proposed.  I may be the one who ends up answering those questions for the MW community.  Assuming I can figure it out of course...