by Mairsile Hourihane.
We've got one step further ... by sticking with the default UTF8 encoding we can now log in.
But it is not pulling the user details from the external database, so at first log in we are being brought to the edit profile page (user/edit.php?course=1&id=18) with blank firstname, lastname and email fields.
If I put data into these and save, I get "Error updating user record." and am returned to the edit profile page not matter what navigation I tries.
The user has been created, but with blank entries in these fields.