Thread:Project:Support desk/How to recreate the search index/reply (6)

> page title i.e. Arm®, but if I see that in DEV server (mediawiki 1.25), then I see ArmÂ®

Your second problem is a charset problem. If your plan is to upgrade the original server to MediaWiki 1.25 (as opposed to copying over your DEV instance), then you will most likely not have this problem on the original server.

Make sure that in MySQL in your DEV system you are using UTF-8 encoding - basically everywhere: For the different tables and the columns (especially the column page_title in the page table). Also make sure that the "character_set_*" variables in MySQL are set to UTF-8. This affects these variables:

character_set_client = utf8; character_set_results = utf8; character_set_connection = utf8;

Afterwards, when you query the page_title column with a tool like phpmyadmin, you should see the page titles encoded correctly. And when this is the case, MediaWiki should also be able to display them correctly again.