That is what the issue was!
Finally jogged my memory.
Currently there is not a built in script to convert the tables.
As long as you start with a net new install it is okay.
From the old version 8 change log that became vaporware.
By Rick:
The other big step is the conversion of the table types to a character set of utf8. All of the data within the various tables will be converted to utf8, and all timestamps will be converted to GMT.
Yes, version 8 is going to be a very large update. All of the tables will be changing, lowercasing, utf8, splitting up the posts table, etc. All of the scripts will be changing, the templates, skins, etc. It's probably more major than the version 7 upgrade was wink
It's probably going to be easiest if you're already running version 7.5.x when version 8 comes out so it can upgrade directly, oth
