Re: [Phpgroupware-developers] Re: SV: utf-8 vs iso-8859-1

[Dave Hall]

On Fri, 2006-02-24 at 15:39 -0600, Chris Weiss wrote:
> On 2/23/06, Dave Hall <address@hidden> wrote:
> > I think we should include some notes for people upgrading in the release
> > notes too.  It would be best if people run the dump and reimport before
> > install new langs etc.
> 
> how hard would it be to run the data though at upgrade time?  guessing
> it would take a long time
> 

It is pretty easy to do the conversion on the command line.  I think it
is more difficult for win users, cygwin (or mingw) might hold the key
for them.

Automating it isn't really an option as you also need to change the
charset of the database.

Cheers

Dave

PS CCed due to list lag