Hi garvinhicking,

I solved the problem converting the database from utf-8 to ISO-8859-1 using:

iconv --from-code=UTF-8 --to-code=ISO-8859-1 old.sql > new.sql

Then I dumped the database and I proceeded to do what you said about enabling/disabling the option "Use database charset" within the s9y ...

Hi, some time ago I had a problem with my server. Now, I am trying to install serendipity again using the last database and the last version of serendipity I used at that time (1.1.2). The problem is that Spanish Characters are shown as a mess. Look at this:

http://muammar.me/blog/

I have tried ...

Hi Garvin!!!


Now it works, you were right! I had to downgrade the version string to '1.0' instead of '1.1.1' Thanks a lot!


Best Regards and greetings from Venezuela.

Hi Garvin,

Unfortunately for me, I still have the same problem I do not know what to do. I am trying some stuff here but I haven't had success yet. If I find a solution I'll post it.

Greetings,

Hi garvinhicking :)

I did what you suggested and when the application tries to update some parts of the database it shows next error:

ALTER TABLE serendipity_category ADD COLUMN sort_order int(11);

/ Duplicate column name 'sort_order'

ALTER TABLE serendipity_category ADD COLUMN hide_sub int(1 ...

Hi garvinhicking, thanks for answering so quickly.

Well, I was using version 1.1.1 and what I did was to download all the next versions to upgrade serendipity gradually. But I have to point something, I had a problem with my server and I made a backup of the database. So When I installed ...

Hi. I've just upgraded serendipity and when I try to access media module I get next warning:

SELECT i.id, '' AS orderkey, i.name, i.extension, i.mime, i.size, i.dimensions_width, i.dimensions_height, i.date, i.thumbnail_name, i.authorid, i.path, i.hotlink, i.realname,
a.realname AS authorname ...