Thread:Project:Support desk/Importing mediawiki 1.11.2 into 1.13.3/reply (4)

So what you have in your dump file is latin1 and you want to get utf8?

If so, I would import the dump file as is and would then run a CONVERT TO CHARSET utf8 like so:

ALTER TABLE db_table CONVERT TO CHARSET utf8 COLLATE utf8_general_ci;