Comments on: How to Convert Your Old WordPress Database to UTF8 http://spaceninja.com/2009/10/how-to-convert-your-old-wordpress-database-to-utf8/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=how-to-convert-your-old-wordpress-database-to-utf8 CSS ninja, last of the freelance hackers, greatest swordfighter in the world Tue, 03 Jan 2012 08:50:34 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Ferodynamics http://spaceninja.com/2009/10/how-to-convert-your-old-wordpress-database-to-utf8/#comment-88829 Ferodynamics Fri, 11 Dec 2009 05:53:40 +0000 http://spaceninja.com/?p=4319#comment-88829 This works. Unfortunately I have multiple installations with different versions. So now my older latin1 blogs that worked are broken, because they were using the same database. Also, there's no need to download the .sql file to do the search/replace. Try this: "sed -e 's/latin1/utf8/g' db.sql > db-utf8.sql" If you're curious, sed tutorial is here, from IBM - http://j.mp/12ORmb This works. Unfortunately I have multiple installations with different versions. So now my older latin1 blogs that worked are broken, because they were using the same database.

Also, there’s no need to download the .sql file to do the search/replace. Try this: “sed -e ‘s/latin1/utf8/g’ db.sql > db-utf8.sql”

If you’re curious, sed tutorial is here, from IBM – http://j.mp/12ORmb

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