marcelotorres on "[Plugin: BackWPup Free - WordPress Backup Plugin] Error database backup - Unknown character set: 'UTF'"

Hi, I'm receiving the following error

WARNING: mysqli::real_connect(): (42000/1115): Unknown character set: 'UTF'
ERROR: Cannot connect to MySQL database 1115: Unknown character set: 'UTF'

does anyone know what the reason for this?

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