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    • Installation system error related to encoding issues?

    Posted by caithion posts: 27

    Hi,

    I've been fighting through this with the help of the documentation on the site, but keep seeming to hit blocks. I am moving a tiki database to a new server and taking over from the previous administrator. The database is still mysql and tiki 2.0. The database is encoded in Latin1. The database includes a large amount of Japanese text.

    Upgrading directly to 12.1 produced errors in the Japanese text encoding, which I believe was due to double encoding errors. I reinstalled the sql file, this time using --default-character-set=latin1 (as recommended by the tiki documentation when having double encoding errors).

    Next I upgraded to 3.9, which preserved the Japanese encoding but produced errors in the table encoding for some pages. The 3.9 install does not allow any of the process suggested on the Upgrade page (http://doc.tiki.org/Upgrade#Fix_the_encoding_issue), so I then tried to upgrade to 12.1.

    During the step 5 "Convert database and tables to UTF-8" process I had a timeout error. I increased my php.ini max_execution_time to 120 and tried the install again. This time I was not given the "Convert database and tables to UTF-8" option at step 5, but did do the very last step of "Dangerous: Fix double encoding." The installer tells me I am successful.

    The end result is a system error page when I try to enter the tiki: "An error occurred while performing the request."
    Checking my database in MySQL shows no errors. The database credentials in my local.php file are accurate.

    Does anyone have any suggestions on what to do other than restoring the sql file yet again and remaining at tiki 2.0? I would really like to upgrade but seem to be having no luck because of the Japanese text problem.

    Thank you for any suggestions!
    Jen B.

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    Posted by Torsten Fabricius posts: 1563 Germany

    Hi Jen,

    that seems to be a very specific problem and yes, encoding issues - especially with a server change at the same time are ugly.

    Once I ended up with such stuff by exporting and importing table per table with .CSV .

    I can imagine, that exporting the database as .CSV, make a few copies and experiment with some Linus Shell based magic.

    I might ask Frank (fmg) who is one of our Linux cracks in the community, if he knows specific Linux tools.

    In case you would not be a Linux user, I recommend to get an Ubuntu Gnome (14.04) and make an installation as either dual boot or on a spare hard disk using USB-boot.

    But before we continue:

    Please tell us, if you have still access to the old server or not:

    Greetings and looking forward for your feedback,
    Torsten

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