Manual:$wgLegacyEncoding
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<translate> Language, regional and character encoding settings</translate>: $wgLegacyEncoding | |
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Set this to the character set, which you used before you updated to MediaWiki 1.5 (eg 'ISO-8859-1'). MediaWiki will then perform a temporary character set conversion when loading old revisions, which are not marked with "utf-8" flag (revisions created with MediaWiki 1.4 and earlier). |
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<translate> Introduced in version:</translate> | 1.4.0 |
<translate> Removed in version:</translate> | <translate> still in use</translate> |
<translate> Allowed values:</translate> | <translate> Unspecified</translate> |
<translate> Default value:</translate> | false |
<translate> Other settings:</translate> <translate> Alphabetical</translate> | <translate> By function</translate> |
Details
Set this to the character set, which you used before you updated to MediaWiki 1.5 (eg 'ISO-8859-1'). MediaWiki will then perform a temporary character set conversion when loading old revisions, which are not marked with "utf-8" flag (that are revisions created with MediaWiki 1.4 and earlier). You can use this when you convert a wiki to UTF-8 and you do not want to do a mass conversion of old text data. Note however, that old texts, that have been converted because $wgLegacyEncoding was set, are not updated in the database! The next time they are needed, they will have to be converted again.