Index: /var/www/hosts/mediawiki/phase3/includes/User.php =================================================================== --- /var/www/hosts/mediawiki/phase3/includes/User.php (revision 16049) +++ /var/www/hosts/mediawiki/phase3/includes/User.php (working copy) @@ -1795,7 +1795,7 @@ } elseif ( function_exists( 'iconv' ) ) { # Some wikis were converted from ISO 8859-1 to UTF-8, the passwords can't be converted # Check for this with iconv - $cp1252hash = $this->encryptPassword( iconv( 'UTF-8', 'WINDOWS-1252', $password ) ); + $cp1252hash = $this->encryptPassword( iconv( 'UTF-8', "WINDOWS-1252//TRANSLIT", $password ) ); if ( 0 == strcmp( $cp1252hash, $this->mPassword ) ) { return true; }