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Re: Error starting service because collation is not valid for character set.
Posted by: Jason Storer
Date: March 09, 2011 01:20PM

I didn't have a character set variable defined in /etc/my.cnf so I added the following two lines:

default-character-set=utf8
character-set-server=utf8

That worked perfectly, thank you!

Jason

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