Dang it! That was the other thought I had but failed to mention Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view. ... character set and collation as well as engine now have to be particular. Character set: utf8 with collation utf8_general_ci and Engine must be Innodb.
In 2.1 code (scripts don't exist in 2.0.x), there should be a couple of scripts you can run from the command line to take care of all that:
in moodlecode/admin/cli/
Run like (shows linux - adjust for Winders):
sudo -u www-data /usr/bin/php admin/cli/mysql_collation.php --collation=utf8_general_ci
And
sudo -u www-data /usr/bin/php admin/cli/mysql_engine.php --engine=InnoDB
Reason for using the scripts, normally such changes require one to do so on each table. Too many tables! The scripts make those changes to *ALL* tables. ;)
'spirit of sharing', Ken