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This feature was removed completely in version 1.18.0.

Language, regional and character encoding settings: $wgInputEncoding
The encoding of the input text.
Introduced in version:	Before 1.1.0
Deprecated in version:	1.5.0
Removed in version:	1.18.0 (r87589)
Allowed values:	(string)
Default value:	`'UTF-8'` (1.5-1.17) `'ISO-8859-1'` (1.1-1.4)
Other settings: Alphabetical \| By function

Details

The encoding of the input text.

LanguageUtf8.php normally overrides this unless you set $wgUseLatin1 to true.