Re: Switching everything to UTF-8

On Mon, Nov 17, 2003 at 03:28:46PM -0800, Brion Vibber wrote:
> On Nov 17, 2003, at 15:02, Tomasz Wegrzanowski wrote:
> >Staying so long with ISO 8859 was a mistake.
> >
> >So I propose converting all Wikipedias that aren't using UTF-8 yet to 
> >UTF-8.
> >Procedure should be like that:
> [...]
> 
> How about we do the conversion when installing the new big database 
> server? (Tentatively next week if they actually ship the machine on 
> time.)
> 
> We'll have to go down to read-only mode while copying stuff over 
> anyway, so this consolidates downtime. The conversion itself can be 
> done by simply piping the database dump through iconv as it's being 
> copied into the new db.
> 
> Easy as pie!

It would be better if numeric entities were converted too.
The code is somewhere in Phase1->Phase2 conversion script,
and in konwert program too.