Yes, all those posts telling you to use phpmyadmin to change collation are basically in error. They may work for some, but the app has no capability of changing fields, only tables. But since even a slow vb forum can have hundreds of fields, you really can't change them all manually.
A db backup is a plain text file, so I have successfully done this with a simple Search and Replace operation.
But I don't know. If you suddenly got this error I'd sooner suspect some add-on is the culprit. The collations were working on Monday; they didn't change on their own Tuesday.
08-21-2010, 12:57 AM
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