(In reply to comment #0)

Note: the descriptions are in ISO-8859-1, not utf-8

Nothing like making life difficult when importImages.php doesn't offer differing encoding support

Having them in the same folder is preferred (though easily fixed), as is having the wikitext files to be the extension replaced with txt. Though, using "jpg.txt" is easily enough done too.

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We now have numerous files with screwed up encoding in the descriptions...

Nothing like making life difficult when importImages.php doesn't offer
differing encoding support

I considered the addition of utf8_encode() to the script previous to running it to be trivial :(

• a/maintenance/importImages.php

+++ b/maintenance/importImages.php
@@ -214,3 +214,3 @@

} else {

• $commentText = file_get_contents( $f );

+ $commentText = utf8_encode( file_get_contents( $f ) );

if ( !$commentText ) {

I converted the filenames to utf-8, though.

Having them in the same folder is preferred (though easily fixed), as is
having the wikitext files to be the extension replaced with txt. Though, using
"jpg.txt" is easily enough done too.

Sorry. Although "jpg.txt" format is also supported
https://git.wikimedia.org/blob/mediawiki%2Fcore/b8a720c5e6322de4311024d0769be9996b699edb/maintenance%2FimportImages.inc#L77

We now have numerous files with screwed up encoding in the descriptions...

Descriptions have been fixed. Closing bug.

Thanks for your work