I have tried actually converting all of the tables to unicode_ci and general_ci (utf8) but no matter what all tables are I still get this error message, is there any way this can be fixed?!
This only seems to happen when I click on my "modules" or "templates" tabs under the main extensions menu in joomla admin. please help
Error
Illegal mix of collations (utf8_general_ci,IMPLICIT) and (utf8_unicode_ci,IMPLICIT) for operation '=' SQL=SELECT a.id, a.title, a.note, a.position, a.module, a.language,a.checked_out, a.checked_out_time, a.published as published, e.enabled as enabled, a.access, a.ordering, a.publish_up, a.publish_down,l.title AS language_title, l.image AS language_image,uc.name AS editor,ag.title AS access_level,MIN(mm.menuid) AS pages,e.name AS name FROM `#__modules` AS a LEFT JOIN `#__languages` AS l ON l.lang_code = a.language LEFT JOIN #__users AS uc ON uc.id=a.checked_out LEFT JOIN #__viewlevels AS ag ON ag.id = a.access LEFT JOIN #__modules_menu AS mm ON mm.moduleid = a.id LEFT JOIN #__extensions AS e ON e.element = a.module WHERE (a.published IN (0, 1)) AND a.client_id = 0 AND e.client_id =0 GROUP BY a.id, a.title, a.note, a.position, a.module, a.language,a.checked_out,a.checked_out_time, a.published, a.access, a.ordering, l.title, l.image, uc.name, ag.title, e.name,l.lang_code, uc.id, ag.id, mm.moduleid, e.element, a.publish_up, a.publish_down,e.enabled Illegal mix of collations (utf8_general_ci,IMPLICIT) and (utf8_unicode_ci,IMPLICIT) for operation '=' SQL=SELECT a.id, a.title, a.note, a.position, a.module, a.language,a.checked_out, a.checked_out_time, a.published as published, e.enabled as enabled, a.access, a.ordering, a.publish_up, a.publish_down,l.title AS language_title, l.image AS language_image,uc.name AS editor,ag.title AS access_level,MIN(mm.menuid) AS pages,e.name AS name FROM `#__modules` AS a LEFT JOIN `#__languages` AS l ON l.lang_code = a.language LEFT JOIN #__users AS uc ON uc.id=a.checked_out LEFT JOIN #__viewlevels AS ag ON ag.id = a.access LEFT JOIN #__modules_menu AS mm ON mm.moduleid = a.id LEFT JOIN #__extensions AS e ON e.element = a.module WHERE (a.published IN (0, 1)) AND a.client_id = 0 AND e.client_id =0 GROUP BY a.id, a.title, a.note, a.position, a.module, a.language,a.checked_out,a.checked_out_time, a.published, a.access, a.ordering, l.title, l.image, uc.name, ag.title, e.name,l.lang_code, uc.id, ag.id, mm.moduleid, e.element, a.publish_up, a.publish_down,e.enabled ORDER BY `position` asc,a.ordering ASC LIMIT 0, 20 Illegal mix of collations (utf8_general_ci,IMPLICIT) and (utf8_unicode_ci,IMPLICIT) for operation '=' SQL=SELECT a.id, a.title, a.note, a.position, a.module, a.language,a.checked_out, a.checked_out_time, a.published as published, e.enabled as enabled, a.access, a.ordering, a.publish_up, a.publish_down,l.title AS language_title, l.image AS language_image,uc.name AS editor,ag.title AS access_level,MIN(mm.menuid) AS pages,e.name AS name FROM `#__modules` AS a LEFT JOIN `#__languages` AS l ON l.lang_code = a.language LEFT JOIN #__users AS uc ON uc.id=a.checked_out LEFT JOIN #__viewlevels AS ag ON ag.id = a.access LEFT JOIN #__modules_menu AS mm ON mm.moduleid = a.id LEFT JOIN #__extensions AS e ON e.element = a.module WHERE (a.published IN (0, 1)) AND a.client_id = 0 AND e.client_id =0 GROUP BY a.id, a.title, a.note, a.position, a.module, a.language,a.checked_out,a.checked_out_time, a.published, a.access, a.ordering, l.title, l.image, uc.name, ag.title, e.name,l.lang_code, uc.id, ag.id, mm.moduleid, e.element, a.publish_up, a.publish_down,e.enabled ORDER BY `position` asc,a.ordering ASC
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