Manual:$wgLegacyEncoding
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| Localization: $wgLegacyEncoding | |
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| Set this to eg 'ISO-8859-1' to perform character set conversion when loading old revisions not marked with "utf-8" flag. |
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| Introduced in version: | 1.4.0 |
| Removed in version: | still in use |
| Allowed values: | |
| Default value: | false |
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Set this to eg 'ISO-8859-1' to perform character set conversion when loading old revisions not marked with "utf-8" flag. Use this when converting wiki to UTF-8 without the burdensome mass conversion of old text data.
NOTE! This DOES NOT touch any fields other than old_text. Titles, comments, user names, etc still must be converted en masse in the database before continuing as a UTF-8 wiki.