DeDanaan

After a brief hiatus, it looks like we’re back online with all entries, comments, and miscellaneous bits intact. Much thanks to Rob Beckett, who helped tremendously in solving our MySql importation problems. Without his help, it might have taken months to painstakingly put this site back together after having moved it from the old server to the new one. Thanks to Rob for the assist!!

**Note for the future: When exporting an SQL file from within phpMyAdmin, make sure the following checkboxes are checked before saving as a File:

Under Structure - Add DROP TABLE
Under Data - Complete Inserts, and Extended Inserts

We’re both still scratching our heads over WHY mySql table collations are under latin1_swedish_ci, since some variation of UTF-8 would be the one that would tend to leave all special characters intact, but this is, apparently, the default setting for mySql. Because of this, you may notice that special characters that are required in the Irish language may not look proper in various entries here. I’m correcting them by hand, little by little, but may not have gotten to the funkiness you’re looking at just yet. Be patient, I’ll get there eventually.