Forum has character encoding issues with database

I can't seem to see this forum, all I get are error messages:
user warning: Illegal mix of collations (utf8_general_ci,IMPLICIT) and (latin1_swedish_ci,IMPLICIT) for operation 'if' query: SELECT n.nid, f.tid, n.title, n.sticky, u.name, u.uid, n.created AS timestamp, n.comment AS comment_mode, l.last_comment_timestamp, IF(l.last_comment_uid != 0, cu.name, l.last_comment_name) AS last_comment_name, l.last_comment_uid, l.comment_count AS num_comments FROM dp5node_comment_statistics l, dp5users cu, dp5term_node r, dp5users u, dp5forum f, dp5node n WHERE n.status = 1 AND l.last_comment_uid = cu.uid AND n.nid = l.nid AND n.nid = r.nid AND r.tid = 2 AND n.uid = u.uid AND n.vid = f.vid ORDER BY n.sticky DESC, l.last_comment_timestamp DESC, n.created DESC LIMIT 0, 25 in /customers/sylphis3d.com/sylphis3d.com/httpd.www/devnet/includes/database.mysql.inc on line 172.

please fix this so the forum is usable, thank you.


Weird... can anyone else see

Weird... can anyone else see that error? I cant see it on my setup!

I'm by no means either a

I'm by no means either a Drupal expert or a server admin of any grand scale, but I'm going to take a wild stab that this is a problem at the hosts' level. All those Apache, PHP, and MySQL ./configure options can be maddening.

Harkal, have you enabled (or disabled) anything in Drupal that might have anything to do with character encoding or different languages?

To whatever extent I can help, I'll gladly help sort through this problem. :)

-=Derek

fixed?

The problem seems to have been transient, as now I can't reproduce it.
I think I am the only person to encounter it, so my vote is to ignore it. Only address it if it comes back.
Thanks
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Glad to hear it's working as

Glad to hear it's working as it should now. :) I'm still a little suspicious about something either with Drupal or the server because bits of the documentation got slightly jumbled around the same time you mentioned this error with the forums. Definitely let us know if it happens again to you.

By the way, welcome to Sylphis!

-=Derek