migration db with turkish characters.

[muratp]

hi all. i am a newbie here and have some problems on migrating a site with turkish forum to another server.
on the old server all characters were shown fine, the charset is uft-8 and if i migrate it with migration manager some of the character are shown like ? .
do you have any suggestions how i can get this straight.

thanks,
murat

 

[Denis Sirochenko]

Hello Murat,

Make sure that the default MySQL character set is 'latin1'. This encoding is used by Mysql by default, however if it was redefined in /etc/my.cnf, it is better to switch it back to avoid the problems with database restoration.

Additional details can be found at the following Knowledge Base article:

How Plesk server must be prepared for migration?
http://kb.odin.com/en/2112

Regards,
Denis.