TYPO3 Exception 1381847136

Could not determine the current charset of the database.

Did you update MySQL last time and this exception occurred? First verify if MySQL can check the charsets by running the following SQL query:

SHOW SESSION VARIABLES LIKE 'character_set%';
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If it shows you an error like Table 'performance_schema.session_variables' doesn't exist you can try to fix it by the console command:

mysql_upgrade -u root -p --force
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After that, restart mysql.

reference: http://stackoverflow.com/q/31967527/1066240