ä is what you get when you take ä encoded as UTF-8 and interpret it as ISO-8859-1. So what probably happened, is that some text that was encoded as UTF-8 was treated as if it was ISO-8859-1/windows1252 and (unessearily) converted to UTF-8.
Common causes of this sort of thing: - Very very old wiki from before MediaWiki adopted UTF-8 that wasn't upgraded properly. (I think MW adopted UTF-8 before MediaWiki 1.5, so it would have to be truly ancient). - Restoring a DB from backup with some wrong options related to charset - converting the charset of DB columns if they were originally mislabeled. If its the entire DB that is broken, I think the easiest fix might be to take a DB dump, and use the iconv command line tool to convert UTF-8 -> windows-1252 (To undo one layer of conversion) and then import the result as if it was UTF-8. -- brian. On Thu, Sep 8, 2022 at 3:13 AM Zoran Dori <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > I'm working on one wiki which shows characters in a weird way. UTF-8 is > used for encoding, so I believe that it isn't an issue. > > You can take a look here Statik A – Sub Bavaria (sub-bavaria.de) > <http://www.sub-bavaria.de/w/index.php?title=Statik_A>, so you can better > understand what I'm talking about. > > Could you please point me to something that I should look for, so I can > fix this issue? > Wiki was previously on version 1.31, I've upgraded it to 1.38. > > Thanks for your help and understanding! > > Best regards, > Zoran > _______________________________________________ > MediaWiki-l mailing list -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/postorius/lists/mediawiki-l.lists.wikimedia.org/
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