Hi!
When restoring a course made in 1.5.3 and iso-8859-1 in 1.6 utf-8, all strings get cut off after the first non-asci character. "Lærere" comes out as "L", "Bedre føre var" comes out as "Bedre f" etc.
Does this mean that no previous content can be used after update to 1.6?
Is this a bug that should be reported?
Hi tormod,
the backup/restore utf8 support is one of the things in the TODO list of changes remaining (such list will be available under this wiki page soon).
Anyway, your problem could be different depending of HOW are you running Moodle 1.6. Is it a clean installation or an upgraded one? Is it running under the new UTF8 mode or no? (If you see one message about to migrate DB in the admin page, then you are running under OLD (non UTF8) mode).
Also I would recommend to send all these sort of reports to the Unicode category in the Bugs system providing all the information available. Sure it helps developers a lot. TIA!
Ciao
the backup/restore utf8 support is one of the things in the TODO list of changes remaining (such list will be available under this wiki page soon).
Anyway, your problem could be different depending of HOW are you running Moodle 1.6. Is it a clean installation or an upgraded one? Is it running under the new UTF8 mode or no? (If you see one message about to migrate DB in the admin page, then you are running under OLD (non UTF8) mode).
Also I would recommend to send all these sort of reports to the Unicode category in the Bugs system providing all the information available. Sure it helps developers a lot. TIA!
Ciao
Hi,
I tried several things.
First I made a clean install of 1.6. with the xamp-package included on moodle.org. I then restored a course made in 1.5.3 to this installation.
I then made a clean install of 1.5.3, restored a course to this system, It all went well, and then I updated to 1.6, and the non-asci characters came out as question marks, or the strings were just cut off at that point.
I'll post to the bugtracker.
I tried several things.
First I made a clean install of 1.6. with the xamp-package included on moodle.org. I then restored a course made in 1.5.3 to this installation.
I then made a clean install of 1.5.3, restored a course to this system, It all went well, and then I updated to 1.6, and the non-asci characters came out as question marks, or the strings were just cut off at that point.
I'll post to the bugtracker.
This is embarrasing.
It was only the database migration that hadn't been done.
Sorry for the extra work I may have caused.
It was only the database migration that hadn't been done.
Sorry for the extra work I may have caused.