On Thursday 07 February 2008 10:10, Jan Schneider wrote: >> If the dump is actually ISO-8859-1 i can probably >> just use iconv to switch it to UTF-8. > >That still wouldn't solve the problem. Serialized PHP arrays track >string lengths. But PHP versions lower than 6 don't really know about >string characters, they all consider strings as binary. As a result >the same string has different lengths in different charsets. If you >only convert the string contents, the string length stored in the >serialized arrays don't match anymore, and PHP is no longer able to >unserialize them.
Ah, now i understand. Thank you. If the file turns out to not be plain ASCII, i'll have to learn more about the serialized arrays and do something more complicated to convert them. I've looked at the serialized arrays that Horde uses in enough detail that i don't expect such a project to take very long, though certainly more than just using iconv would have... ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Dan Ramaley Dial Center 118, Drake University Network Programmer/Analyst 2407 Carpenter Ave +1 515 271-4540 Des Moines IA 50311 USA -- IMP mailing list - Join the hunt: http://horde.org/bounties/#imp Frequently Asked Questions: http://horde.org/faq/ To unsubscribe, mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
