[pmwiki-users] Trying to revive an old wiki

[Petko Yotov]

Hello,

There is a bug/feature with the function htmlspecialchars() in PHP 5.4 
and newer. If the string to be converted contains invalid characters for 
the charset, it returns blank. Moreover, the default_charset directive 
changed from iso8859-1/cp1252, an 8 bit encoding where all characters 
are valid, to UTF-8, a variable-bit encoding where some combinations of 
characters are invalid.

So, the easiest fix is to set the "default_charset" directive in php.ini 
to an 8-bit encoding like CP1252.
   http://php.net/manual/en/ini.core.php#ini.default-charset

But in order to fix it for future compatibility, it is recommended, in 
all your recipes and local customizations, to replace any call to 
htmlspecialchars() with the core helper function PHSC() which takes care 
of the problem.

Petko

On 2015-05-26 09:46, Anders Troberg wrote:
> I'm trying to revive a wiki from a server that died years ago
> (2.0, from 2005), so I can salvage some of the contents and put in my
> current wiki (2.2.72). I'm prepared to manually copy the topic text,
> it's a bit of work, but doable, it's only about 200 topics and maybe
> half of them is to be salvaged.
>  
> So, I do this:
> 
>  
> 1. Copy the wiki to my new web server.
> 
> 2. Set the apropriate permissions (all, as it's put on my internal
> network, so only I can reach it).
> 
> 3. Log on to it.
>  
> At this point, I expected to see the wiki. It's something I've done
> before with other wikis, and it's always worked.
> 
> However, I find most topics empty. Only a few, maybe one in twenty,
> has any contents. If I look at the files in wiki.d, all the text is in
> there and looks OK. I can't find anything different between the
> working topics and the blank topics.
> 
> Yikes! What's going on, and how do I fix it???