Hi,
Since I transitioned to Fedora 35 I have a problem with the character set (probably related to MariaDB).
When I type in UTF-8 characters (as swedish å,ä and ö) the form will accept the characters but as soon as I save the post or edit an old entry, CQRLOG displays some good old 7-bit substitutes.

I have tried editing the *.adi backup file, manually correcting all substitutes, e.g: "<NAME_INTL:6>Börje<QTH_INTL:11>GÃ¥nghester" => "<NAME_INTL:6>Börje<QTH_INTL:11>Gånghester" and then importing the adi-file to a new database. When I open CQRLOG with the new database, everything looks OK but as soon as I edit an old entry (like the one above) or adds a new logbook entry CQRLOG changes the characters back to the 7-bit format.

The mysql.cnf looks correct in relevant parts:

# Use UTF-8 encoding for tables
character_set_server=utf8
collation_server=utf8_bin

The log file has a few errors, but nothing related to character set representation:

2022-01-12 11:33:10 0 [Note] InnoDB: Uses event mutexes
2022-01-12 11:33:10 0 [Note] InnoDB: Compressed tables use zlib 1.2.11
2022-01-12 11:33:10 0 [Note] InnoDB: Number of pools: 1
2022-01-12 11:33:10 0 [Note] InnoDB: Using crc32 + pclmulqdq instructions
2022-01-12 11:33:10 0 [Note] InnoDB: Using Linux native AIO
2022-01-12 11:33:10 0 [Note] InnoDB: Initializing buffer pool, total size = 83886080, chunk size = 83886080
2022-01-12 11:33:10 0 [Note] InnoDB: Completed initialization of buffer pool
2022-01-12 11:33:10 0 [Note] InnoDB: 128 rollback segments are active.
2022-01-12 11:33:10 0 [Note] InnoDB: Creating shared tablespace for temporary tables
2022-01-12 11:33:10 0 [Note] InnoDB: Setting file './ibtmp1' size to 12 MB. Physically writing the file full; Please wait ...
2022-01-12 11:33:10 0 [Note] InnoDB: File './ibtmp1' size is now 12 MB.
2022-01-12 11:33:10 0 [Note] InnoDB: 10.5.13 started; log sequence number 96473840; transaction id 3161
2022-01-12 11:33:10 0 [Note] InnoDB: Loading buffer pool(s) from /home/brusan/.config/cqrlog/database/ib_buffer_pool
2022-01-12 11:33:10 0 [Note] Plugin 'FEEDBACK' is disabled.
2022-01-12 11:33:10 0 [ERROR] Can't open and lock privilege tables: Table 'mysql.servers' doesn't exist
2022-01-12 11:33:10 0 [Note] Server socket created on IP: '::'.
2022-01-12 11:33:10 0 [Warning] Can't open and lock time zone table: Table 'mysql.time_zone_leap_second' doesn't exist trying to live without them
2022-01-12 11:33:10 1 [Warning] Failed to load slave replication state from table mysql.gtid_slave_pos: 1017: Can't find file: './mysql/' (errno: 2 "No such file or directory")
2022-01-12 11:33:10 0 [Note] Reading of all Master_info entries succeeded
2022-01-12 11:33:10 0 [Note] Added new Master_info '' to hash table
2022-01-12 11:33:10 0 [Note] /usr/sbin/mysqld: ready for connections.
Version: '10.5.13-MariaDB' socket: '/home/brusan/.config/cqrlog/database/sock' port: 64000 MariaDB Server
2022-01-12 11:33:10 0 [Note] InnoDB: Buffer pool(s) load completed at 220112 11:33:10
2022-01-12 11:33:11 4 [ERROR] InnoDB: Table `mysql`.`innodb_table_stats` not found.
2022-01-12 11:34:35 0 [Note] /usr/sbin/mysqld (initiated by: unknown): Normal shutdown
2022-01-12 11:34:35 0 [Note] InnoDB: FTS optimize thread exiting.
2022-01-12 11:34:35 0 [Note] InnoDB: Starting shutdown...
2022-01-12 11:34:35 0 [Note] InnoDB: Dumping buffer pool(s) to /home/brusan/.config/cqrlog/database/ib_buffer_pool
2022-01-12 11:34:35 0 [Note] InnoDB: Buffer pool(s) dump completed at 220112 11:34:35
2022-01-12 11:34:36 0 [Note] InnoDB: Removed temporary tablespace data file: "ibtmp1"
2022-01-12 11:34:36 0 [Note] InnoDB: Shutdown completed; log sequence number 96552836; transaction id 3172
2022-01-12 11:34:36 0 [Note] /usr/sbin/mysqld: Shutdown complete


I can not find anything related to character sets in the CQRLOG config file so right now I feel I'm out of options.
The version is 2.5.2 (001)

Any ideas?