Thread:Project:Support desk/UTF-8 converted to latin1 on output?/reply (2)

Hi!

I do not directly have the solution, but some thoughts:

Binary tables are fine. MediaWiki internally always handles the data as UTF-8. You should make sure that all charset settings in MySQL are UTF-8 or binary: character_set_connection, character_set_client and character_set_results. They all can also be set with $wgDBmysql5, but you might not need to set it at all, if they are configured properly anyway. Then make sure that inside your database the following objects use the right encoding: the DB itself, the single tables and those columns, which do have an encoding. They should all be binary in your case, except a few tables, which need to be UTF-8, because they need a full text search (I think that affected two tables, one of them the search index).

You are currently using MW1.21rc4. You might want to update that to MW1.21.3 (but I do not expect that to solve the problem). When you say that you updated - and that before the update everything worked correctly -, from which version did you update?