William, thanks for your reply.
This morning, I added the few more requirements in my.cnf. Restarted MySQL.
Thank, I updated from utf8 to utf8mb4. No problem, but it did take 30 minutes.
Soon I will be upgrading my Moodle to 3.3.
Installing and upgrading help
conversion from utf8 to utf8mb4 - which columns?
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