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by derulf
Thu Jan 04, 2007 10:19 pm
Forum: General discussions
Topic: Importing articles from WordPress fails
Replies: 14
Views: 7480

garvinhicking wrote:Hi!

Just send me the data/URL via a PM in this board. :-)

Best regards,
Garvin
Oh my g... hit me, if you like. That was it. What? The character settings in S9Y. I just switched from UTF-8 to National Character Settings and now it work's. My fault, sorry... :/
by derulf
Wed Jan 03, 2007 9:12 pm
Forum: General discussions
Topic: Importing articles from WordPress fails
Replies: 14
Views: 7480

Hi!

Are you maybe able to provide me a DB SQL dump of your WP installation? Strip all passwords or sensitive information, of course. I could then use that to test what's going on.

Is your s9y blog using "native" (ISO-8859-1) charset or UTF-8? (Can be changed in the configuration).

And which ...
by derulf
Tue Jan 02, 2007 7:27 pm
Forum: General discussions
Topic: Importing articles from WordPress fails
Replies: 14
Views: 7480

Hi!

Are you only importing the WP-data frmo the RSS feed, or are you trying the direct DB import?

Which PHP version is your server using where you have installed s9y?

I have heard of many WP users that converted properly, so I'm sure we can find the problem in your case somehow. Generally, it ...
by derulf
Sat Dec 30, 2006 10:48 pm
Forum: General discussions
Topic: Importing articles from WordPress fails
Replies: 14
Views: 7480

Davy wrote:I think you should parse that special characters, so they're valid.

E.G.: " is " or a code like ?
If you can do so, a browser will display it correctly.
Any idea how to do that?
by derulf
Sat Dec 30, 2006 9:48 pm
Forum: General discussions
Topic: Importing articles from WordPress fails
Replies: 14
Views: 7480

Hi!

Did you maybe try to use the 1.1 serendipity version? It has a fix in the proper import for special characters that should help/Work in your case...?

HTH,
Garvin

No, won't get any better :( With 1.1 I tried both codepages again, same result... Here a little extract:

Wow... dafür hab ich ...
by derulf
Wed Dec 27, 2006 10:48 pm
Forum: General discussions
Topic: Importing articles from WordPress fails
Replies: 14
Views: 7480

Davy wrote:Are that special characters correctly displayed in the RSS-feeds? Maybe WP is the problem (I hope so, because s9y is much better :P ).
Unfortunately they're not. In my WP-Feeds they're displayed correctly, in the S9Y-Feeds they are not.

Any further ideas?
by derulf
Tue Dec 26, 2006 4:36 pm
Forum: General discussions
Topic: Importing articles from WordPress fails
Replies: 14
Views: 7480

Importing articles from WordPress fails

Hi there,

as the search function doesn't seem to be online at the moment I'm gonna post my problem right away:

Yesterday I installed S9Y 1.0.4 successfully. Afterwards I tried to import my articles from my old WordPress installation. The import process succeeded but all the umlauts (like ä, ö, ü ...