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Dealing with encoding issues

or how to migrate OLAT from Windows to Linux

Porting an OLAT installation from a Windows to a Linux server can produce many encoding issues. Windows uses normally Windows-1252 AKA CP1252 encoding and Linux nowadays often uses UTF-8.

It is not possible to just move the files from the Windows server to the Linux server, filenames that contain äöü will all have ??? instead.

Read the entire article to learn what the common pitfalls are and how you can solve them.

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