Greg Gay

ATutor is no longer maintained. You are welcome to submit a pull request with a fix.

Perhaps its the connection that's not utf-8. Try running the provided query, if you have not already. and see https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/8.0/en/charset-connection.html

There's a few ways to do it, described at the link provided.

Somethings probably changed on the server side. Uncomment the utf-8 line(s) //$db->query("SET NAMES 'utf8'"); in: https://github.com/atutor/ATutor/blob/155526c8a4c35bc15716157837d02c9566b0941e/include/lib/mysql_connect.inc.php#L23

It's going to take some analysis to figure this out, which I'll have to leave to you. Start by using the debug() function to output variable values etc, after enabling...

Its usually enable by adding a "." to the include_path defined in the system's php.ini file, then restarting the webserver. There's other way of doing it, if you do not...

You are welcome to submit a pull request to fix the issue, and get yourself added to the ATutor contributor list. Otherwise ATutor is no longer being actively developed.