Howdy Dan, Some information on the problem and work around can be found here: https://tableplus.io/blog/2018/07/failed-to-load-caching-sha2-password-authentication-plugin-solved.html
The issue was opened by another person yesterday and this issue was lined to it. Drew On Sat, Jan 12, 2019 at 12:23 PM Dan Lewis <elderdanle...@gmail.com> wrote: > I get the following error message when using the Base Wizard in LO > 6.2.0.2 to connect to a MySQL database. > > Can't initialize character set unknown (path: compiled_in) > > I get as far as clicking the the Test Connection button. When entering > the password and clicking OK, I get this message. I have MySQL 8.0.13 > for my back end. I set up to use SHA2 with my password. (This may well > be the where the problems lie.) > > Dan > > _______________________________________________ > LibreOffice mailing list > LibreOffice@lists.freedesktop.org > https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice >
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