Can't initialize character set unknown (path: compiled_in)

[Gaywilds]

Hello,

I've successfully used the plugin in previous projects but in my latest project, I keep running into a connection error with the following output log:

LogTemp: Error: Can't initialize character set unknown (path: compiled_in)
LogTemp: Error: MySQLInitConnection: Failed to Connect to Database!
LogTemp: Error: MySQLCloseConnection: Connection is valid but Server does no respond!

[joey2801]

I've also had this issue, although I found it was down to an incompatible MySQL version (using 5.6 for me fixed it)