Index: lib.php
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RCS file: /cvsroot/moodle/moodle/auth/db/Attic/lib.php,v
retrieving revision 1.25.2.4
diff -u -r1.25.2.4 lib.php
--- lib.php	29 Jan 2007 23:44:58 -0000	1.25.2.4
+++ lib.php	10 Feb 2007 20:27:26 -0000
@@ -94,6 +94,11 @@
     $authdb = &ADONewConnection();         
     $authdb->PConnect($CFG->auth_dbhost,$CFG->auth_dbuser,$CFG->auth_dbpass,$CFG->auth_dbname); 
     $authdb->SetFetchMode(ADODB_FETCH_ASSOC); ///Set Assoc mode always after DB connection
+/// If connecting to MySQL or PostgreSQL, always set the communication channel to UTF8, some lines
+/// below we'll decode back to ISO for sites not running under Unicode. MDL-8479
+    if ($CFG->auth_dbtype == 'mysql' || $CFG->auth_dbtype == 'postgres7') {
+        $authdb->Execute("SET NAMES 'utf8'");
+    }
 
     $fields = array("firstname", "lastname", "email", "phone1", "phone2", 
                     "department", "address", "city", "country", "description",