[OSM-dev] osmosis utf-8

[Tom Hughes]

In message <4730E44A.6030409 at bretth.com>
          Brett Henderson <brett at bretth.com> wrote:

> Given that this is a significant flaw in the current production setup,
> surely it makes sense to fix it rather than constantly work around it?
> I'm willing to help out if necessary, I'd rather fix this problem at the
> source than spend any more time trying to work around the problem in code.
> 
> Do I need to get rails running locally and duplicate the production
> problem then create a process to fix it?  Or is the fix already known?

I don't think it's hard to fix - once the data is fixed it is probably
sufficient to set the default connection character set to UTF-8 and rails
will use that.

The real problem is that we will need to do a complete dump and reload
of the database which will take some time...

Tom

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