README.utf8

2011-01-17 - MD

UTF-8 conversion, some notes

as from around now, code is changed to force everything into UTF-8

to handle this in the DB, the tables need converting

clean empty DB -> initialise will create them using UTF-8

existing DB -

run admin/?page=converttoutf8

this will take the existing tables and set any that are not UTF-8 to become UTF-8
seems to work fairly ok, but fails on key over 1000 and data in DB data is still scrambled, when text has been entered
with UTF-8

to convert the DB as well, the following can be done:

mysqldump database > database-preutf8.sql 
iconv -f iso-8859-1 -t utf-8 database-preutf8.sql  > database-utf8.sql
mysql database < database-utf8.sql