General help

Hi,

We did a completely fresh Moodle 1.9 install at the start of this term and I went to update it today for the first time. When I did it gave me an error about UTF-8 needing to be installed.

I did a lot of reading on this site and from what I can tell this should only be an issue if I had an old version of Moodle and upgraded it.

What's even stranger is that when I do a SHOW CREATE TABLE on the moodle tables they say they ARE UTF-8:

SHOW CREATE TABLE mdl_user;

CREATE TABLE `mdl_user` (
......
) ENGINE=MyISAM AUTO_INCREMENT=12717 DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8 COMMENT='One record for each person'

If my DB is UTF-8, why is Moodle complaining? Is there something I need to do before I can safely update?

In case it matters, the server is running a standard install of RedHat Enterprise Linux 5 with the default MySQL and Apache packages.

Thanks,

Bart.