great, but it should work to extract over the old files too. This may
be easier if you have images etc in place and don't want to move them
around, but remember to back up first!
-* Run the installer to upgrade the database schema (if necessary).
+* Run the installer to upgrade the database schema (if necessary,
+ see sections below for details).
== IMPORTANT: Upgrading to 1.5 ==
'upgrade1_5.php', can do this -- run it prior to 'update.php' or
the web upgrader.
+If you absolutely cannot make the UTF-8 upgrade work, you can try
+doing it by hand: dump your old database, convert the dump file
+using iconv as described here:
+http://portal.suse.com/sdb/en/2004/05/jbartsh_utf-8.html
+and then reimport it. You can also convert filenames using convmv,
+but note that the old directory hashes will no longer be valid,
+so you will also have to move them to new destinations.
+
Message changes:
* A number of additional UI messages have been chagned from HTML to
wikitext, and will need to be manually fixed if customized.