timweber

I tried g30rg3x’s plugin on a v.2.3.1 site and it seemed to work fine. It complained about the WP version (which I expected) and warned about possible data loss (ditto). When I crossed my fingers and said “Run it anyway!” it quickly threw me back to the version-warning page, so that I didn’t it had done anything. So I ran it again! Same thing, so I checked my database and saw that the conversions were indeed made; then checked my blog, and the Cyrillic and accented characters and so on were rendering correctly. Given that it seemed to work, I was surprised at how fast the script ran (I guess I have a small blog).

I wonder what would have happened if I had hacked the version check to include 2.3, but at this point I’m grateful to be running utf8. Gracias!

RichardF has described my situation perfectly. I’m running WP 2.0.2 on a Windows 2003 server. The only difference is in the format of the permalink structure I’m using:

/index.php/%year%.%monthnum%.%day%/%postname%

I submitted a ticket. Hope I described the problem correctly! I agree that removing the custom permalink structure is not an appealing workaround.