Topic on Manual talk:ImportTextFiles.php

after i create a text file that also contains some UTF-8 characters and saving it with UTF-8 encoding, i then import the file with ImportTextFiles.php.

the fiile imports with no errors and the new page is created, but when i edit the page, i get this character soup of questionmarks.

�d�e�v�a� �=� �8 > ' ( > �* % �|�

�t�y�p�e� �=� �d�i�s�c�o�u�r�s�e� �|�

�d�a�t�e� �=� �3� �J�u�l� �1�9�6�4� �p�m� �|�

....etc....

does the php routine convert everything to plain ASCII ?

and can that be avoided?

thanks -rudy

MediaWiki	1.31.1
PHP	7.0.32 (cgi-fcgi)
MySQL	5.6.34-log

i found the problem.

my input files were not properly UTF-8 encoded.