I keep getting this error message when posting. Any idea why and what causes this? It's frustrating as well because at times I have lost everything I wrote after clicking "post message":

Phorum Database Error

Sorry, a Phorum database error occurred.
Please try again later!
Error:

Illegal mix of collations (latin1_swedish_ci,IMPLICIT) and (utf8_general_ci,COERCIBLE) for operation '=' (1267): SELECT message_id FROM ph_messages WHERE forum_id = 12 AND author ='RUN_FOREST_RUN' AND subject ='Re: Chris Butler, Jagad Guru, Science of Identity' AND body =.......AND datestamp > 1638546584
Backtrace:

Function phorum_database_error called at
{path to Phorum}/include/db/mysql/mysqli.php:212
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Function phorum_db_interact called at
{path to Phorum}/include/db/mysql.php:920
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Function phorum_db_post_message called at
{path to Phorum}/include/posting/action_post.php:149
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Function include called at
{path to Phorum}/posting.php:595
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Any news on this Admin?