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🕸Fergus Duniho wrote on Thu, Mar 31, 2016 10:14 PM UTC:

I made some conversions to UTF-8 today.

I converted the Chinese page for Chess by viewing the source code in the correct encoding, then copying that into a UTF-8 document.

For the rest, I did conversions with a script. If a string was detected to be either ASCII or UTF-8, I left it alone. If a string that was neither ASCII nor UTF-8 was detected to be Windows-1252, I converted it from Windows-1252 to UTF-8. If it wasn't detected to be any of these, I detected its encoding and converted it from that to UTF-8.

I converted the first and last names in the Person table to UTF-8.

I converted the following items from MemberSubmissions to UTF-8. I checked the first one before doing the rest, and I checked a few random ones after running the conversion, each one checking out fine.

MSbermuda-chess-angle
MSstep-and-circle-trigchess
MSlancelot
MSqueens-or-castles
MSshatranj-of-troy
MStransmitter-chess
MSshatranj-darwinian
MSregenbogen
MSmir-chess
MSmedusa-shogi
MStravelers
MSmockery-chess
MShaunted-chess
MSbughouse-spartan-chess
MSantarctic-chess-or-predators-and-penguins
MSbordahbee-a-two-board-game-two-8x8-boards
MScannons-of-chesstonia
MPgo
MSdiagonal-3d-chess
MSthree-elephant-chess
MSjetan-jeddara
MSdimension-x
MPgiant-chess
MSfour-handed-elephant-chess
MSremote-sensing-with-on-off-board-detection
MSludus-magus
MSroswell-chess
MSsplit-phase-tri-plane
MSsix-fortresses
MLconstable-chess
MStrimac-hexchess
MPsmaller-alice-chess
MPracing-kings
MPhex-dabbaba-qi
MSsix-fortresses-short-range-shoranji
MSjedi-chess
MSskandaran-chess
MPphilosophers-chess
MSfools-hexagonal-chess
MPwalkers-and-jumpers
MSsunflower-hexchess
MPmini-hexchess
MSanti-check-chess
MSshogi-of-chesstonia
MPamoeba
MStrimac-3-friends
MSsuper-splicers
MSshort-splicers
MPbuilding-chess
MSinsane-ninja-chess
MSchess-on-a-mass-transit-system
MSspartan-chess-28
MPcgnp-chess
MSstallmate-chess
MSchess-with-wizards
MLpaulovitss-game
MSdesert-pub-chess
MSdesert-oasis-chess
MSchesimal-fusion-i
MSblunderbuss-chess
MSdelta88-chess
MPgiant-chess-2
MScapture-the-scepter
MSflying-bombers-grand-chess
MSclaustrophobia
MSflying-bombers-with-hangars
MPflying-bombers-grand-chess
MZoctopus-chess
MSpalace-ninja-guards
MSninjutsu-claustrophobia-2
MSbirds-and-ninjas
MPpalace-ninja-guards
MSpenturanga
MSlongshanks-chess
MSraptor-chess
MSideal-chess
MSsorcerer-chess
MZinsane-ninja-chess
MSholy-grail
MSstealth-ninja-chess
MSthree-quarter-board
MPomega-transplant
MSalapo-8x8
MSmodern-random-chess-64
MSajedrez-aleatorio-moderno-spanish
MSpro-chess
MScontemporary-random-chess
MSreverse-symmetry
MSthe-four-modern-chess-principles
MPmodern-capablanca-random-chess
MSsingle-combat-chess
MPprime-ministers-random-chess
MSprime-ministers-random-chess
MSkings-guard-chess
MSajedrez-aleatorio-del-primer-ministro-spanish
MSmodern-prime-ministers-random-chess
MSmodern-prime-ministers-chess
MPprime-ministers-chess
MSherculean-chess
MSprime-ministers-chess
MSprime-minister
MSprime-ministers-contemporary-random-chess
MSeurasia-chess-chessmen-set-for-chess-xiangqi-shogi-variants
MZherculean-chess
MShadean-chess
MZomega-transplant
MZhadean-chess
MZraptor-chess
MSdisplacement-chess-2
MSinternational-contemporary-random-chess
MSinternational-fischer-random-chess
MPpseudo-modern-random-chess
MSmodern-english-random-chess
MZwreckage
MZpick-the-piece-big-chess
MSatlantean-coffee-house-shatranj
MZzigzag-madness
MSscirocco
MScoprime-shogi
MStyphoon-revised
MZtyphoon-revised
MShow-to-generate-otb-random-positions
MSgrand-ducal-chess
MZchinese-international-chess
MZasylum-redux
MScentral-rotational-chess
MSmodern-ministers-courier-chess
MSchess-with-different-periods
MZchess-with-different-periods
MSajax-capablanca-chess
MZvenomous
MSchameleon-chess-redux
MScarnage
MSajax-random-chess
MShex-dragonal-chess
MStiger-lily-chess
MSajax-modern-random-chess
MSchafl
MStrampoline-chess
MZ10-directionai-chess
MSwing-with-riverqi
MSzabel-schach
MScitadel-8-rank-9-rank
MS3d-great-shatranj
MSbizarro-chess
MSshogchess
MSoskars-3dchess-version-2
MShar-meggido-chess
MSchess-variant-making-off
MStale-for-a-chess-variant
MSquantimex
MSmega-doom-chess-project
MZpierre-menards-chess-variant
MSdiagonal-oblong-chess
MZdiagonal-oblong-chess
MSbattle-of-the-six-armies

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