Hello, I am stuck in the same situation. I tried enabling the iconv extension (php.ini; dlls in place with paths etc.), but the message was the same again. I tried to disable the charset conversion in phpMyAdmin configuration, but it didn't work as well. Actually I tried everything I found on this forum, but it doesn't get any better. And... yes - I do turn off and on the server on every try. Please, let me know if there is a working way to get rid of this error. Rado