Article Manager v2.10 and later stores data internally in unicode. If you've entered non-english
data into Article Manager previous to v2.10 or you've imported data from an earlier version you
can run this program to convert it.
WARNING: DO NOT RUN THIS PROGRAM MORE THAN ONCE. RUNNING THIS PROGRAM MORE THAN
ONCE WILL "DOUBLE ENCODE" ALL YOUR DATA AND MAKE NON-ENGLISH CHARACTERS UNREADABLE.
Instructions
- Backup your website - As with any major change it's always recommended you make a backup
of your website and website data before proceeding. This includes data files, uploads, templates
and anything else of importance. MAKE SURE YOU BACKUP YOUR DATA FILES NO MATTER WHAT. If
someone goes wrong you want to be able to restore them. This program makes major changes to all
your data.
- Login with unique version 2 admin account - To be sure only authorized users can perform an
update you must login with a version 2 admin account below.