“Unicode format UTF-8” error when installing moodle manually

A modern social constructionist pedagogy can be supported by creating modular online courses with Moodle, an open-source PHP web platform. You may encounter the following issue when manually installing it on your web hosting account.”It is required that you store all your data in Unicode format (UTF-8). New installations must be performed into databases that have their default character set as Unicode. If you are upgrading, you should perform the UTF-8 migration process (see the Admin page).”

As the error says, issue is with the default character set under your database. To fix it, you will have to change the Collation for your database to utf8_unicode_ci.

Login to your cPanel & access phpMyadmin. Click on the correct database which is being used for installing Moodle.

Click on Operations & select the Collation to utf8_unicode_ci from the dropdown. Click Go button so that the correct Collation will be applied on the database.

Now, try proceeding Moodle installation.

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