Server sent charset unknown

[ShadowMage]

I'm trying to configure a new web server to migrate the company intranet, but I'm getting the following error:

Server sent charset (255) unknown to the client. Please, report to the developers

I did a little googling and it is supposedly a PHP bug that was fixed in version 7.0-ish.  I am running MySQL 8.0.15 with PHP 7.3.3 (on Win Server 2019, if that matters) and still getting this error.  I tried setting the character_set_server to 'UTF8MB4' but that didn't seem to do anything.

Please help.

[justsomeguy]

It sounds like you need to set the character set to utf8 in MySQL.

[ShadowMage]

I did that, I think.  That's what I meant by setting the character_set_server.  I launched the MySQL command line and ran the following:

set global character_set_server = 'UTF8MB4';

It gave me a warning if I set it to just 'UTF8'.  Something about being ambiguous with UTF8MB3?

Should I be setting this somewhere else?

[justsomeguy]

UTF8MB4 is what PHP doesn't understand.  That isn't going to work.  When I searched for that error message I saw people saying they fixed it by changing to regular utf8.

[ShadowMage]

Thanks, got it all figured out.

 

[ShadowMage]

Got a new problem now.  I'm trying to connect to a Progress DB using OpenEdge 10.2A and getting this error:

The specified DSN contains an architecture mismatch between the Driver and Application

Clearly its complaining about the fact that I'm running 64-bit PHP and trying to use a 32-bit driver (that's the only driver available).  I've enabled 32-bit applications in the app pool on IIS but it's still giving this error.  Any ideas?

[justsomeguy]

Is the database server also 32 bit?

[ShadowMage]

The Progress DB?  Yes, I believe so.  I have no trouble connecting to it with the same driver on the current intranet (which is running 32-bit PHP 5.??)

[justsomeguy]

Are you connecting via ODBC?

It sounds like they don't exactly keep their stuff up to date:

A common PHP configuration in Windows environments uses IIS 5.1, PHP 5.1, and Microsoft SQL Server 2005.

[ShadowMage]

Yes, via ODBC.  I set up the DSN in the 32-bit data source manager and a test connection succeeds there.  Am I going to have to downgrade PHP and MySQL to 32-bit?

[justsomeguy]

If you're required to use Progress, it looks like you may need to use an older version of PHP.  I would contact them and try to find out what their plans are for support.  If it's difficult to get in touch, I wouldn't use them.

[ShadowMage]

Unfortunately, i am required to use Progress...  I am in touch with Epicor to try to get drivers, otherwise I will revert PHP to an older version.  Luckily, Epicor 10 (which we are planning to upgrade to this fall) has moved away from Progress and adopted MySQL so I won't have to deal with this anymore after that.

Thanks for your help!