Thread:Project:Support desk/UTF-8 converted to latin1 on output?/reply (3)

Hi, Thanks for the suggestions. I have previously tried setting $wgDBmysql5 to true, but it had no effect.

The most confusing thing about this is that it is not an old upgraded installation - it is a fresh installation with new tables.

The only irregularity I can conjecture is that it is sharing the user tables of a wiki which has been upgraded from an older version, and so may have some historic anomalies, although it would be strange if the shared user tables caused the new wiki installation to expect non-utf8?

Unless anyone has any ideas on where to dig, I think the next course of action will be an export and total reinstall. Please save me from that ;)