From ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8

[PoPeR]

Hi,
I wonder if it is possible to convert all the messages in the database (around 12.000 messages) from ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8.
Thanks in advance

[[Unknown]]

You could use iconv, assuming you have it compiled into PHP, or MySQL 4.1 to theoretically do this task.

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[PoPeR]

I've searched in phpinfo for iconv but no results, it seems to be not installed. anyway would it require shell access? Cause I've haven't got it.
Thanks for your answer.

[[Unknown]]

Hmm... well, I'm not sure then.  It's possible phpMyAdmin may have facilities to do this, but I doubt it does...

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[CapriSkye]

why not back up you whole database and then convert it using a text editor? worked for me when converting my board to utf-8.