[aur-general] AUR Maintenance

[Firmicus]

On 23/03/2010 22:24, Loui Chang wrote:
> On Tue 23 Mar 2010 16:51 -0400, Daenyth Blank wrote:
>    
>> On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 16:43, Loui Chang<louipc.ist at gmail.com>  wrote:
>>      
>>> It may be possible to restore most of the old comments, but that's
>>> something that we'd have to look into later.
>>>        
>> What's needed for this, and what ways could someone contribute?
>>      
> We need someone with a keen knowledge of mysql and encodings to be able
> to restore the backed up comments properly in utf8.
>
>    
I've done encoding conversions and repairs countless times (mostly using 
Perl). So perhaps I could help on this... (Not today though, but 
probably tomorrow). Contact me off-list and give me more detailed 
instructions of what the issue is. I do have access to sigurd but I 
can't look at the data right now as I am not in the mysql group.

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