[Koha] Koha and UTF-8 (again)

[paul POULAIN]

Joe Atzberger a écrit :
>
>     I also think I'll have another set of million problems as I have to
>     convert the current database (in latin1) to the new and utf8. This is
>     NOT easy and the docs seems not accurate.
>
>
> You are correct this is a burdensome task.  The wiki describes how to 
> handle the conversion in-place in the same DB version.  Last I 
> checked, it did not describe migrating and converting at the same 
> time.  I would suggest approaching the UTF8-conversion as a separate 
> task from the Koha upgrade.  I'm not sure which order would be best, 
> but I would be tempted to work on the data conversion before the 
> upgrade so that you can identify any problems from that in a version 
> of Koha known to you. 
>
> Perhaps someone who has done more 2.2 -> 3.0 upgrades can offer their 
> wisdom....
We (BibLibre) have done more than 20 2.2-> 3.0 upgrades with what the 
wiki describes (http://wiki.koha.org/doku.php?id=22_to_30), and I never 
had any problem -the most recent one being this morning !).
However, I'm UNIMARC, maybe that explains...

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