OK. I restored my 0.9.6 install and I noticed that the original config already says:
$database_connection_charset = ’’;
So it’s actually MODx which, during the installation process, is changing the config.inc.php file to say
$database_connection_charset = ’utf8’;
So, I thought I would change it to
$database_connection_charset = ’utf8’;
before doing the upgrade to 0.9.6.1p2, to see if that made a difference to the end result. It doesn’t
. I get the same problem and after the install the config file says
$database_connection_charset = ’utf8’;
which I think is correct anyway. I’ve run out of ideas here.
Paul