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What did you do to import from Movable Type? Is that painless, i.e. will it import comments, trackbacks etc.?
Yeah, right, but then look at your entry (5/11/2004) called “Müssen nur wollen”: Wordpress (or the wordpress import from MT) seems to have slightly problems integrating german “umlaute” like ü …
Actually, it words if the umlauts are stored as HTML entities. On my site, this is the case in the text of the weblog entries (because I write them with ecto, not with the browser interface), but not in the comments (because they are entered via the browser interface).
Other than that, the import works great.
The MT export file is saved as ISO-8859-1, but the default encoding for WordPress is UTF-8. In WordPress I changed the encoding under Options->Reading to ISO-8859-1, and the umlauts now seem to work. When I do a permanent import, I’d probably try to convert the export file to UTF-8 before importing into WordPress.