PHPMyadmin does not show mysql error messages

Question

I installed phpMyAdmin on my site and it works. But when I mistype a query it does not show the mysql error message only the error code.

1064 -

I expect the

Answer 1

Probably, Server cannot correctly access LOCALE settings. It happens on chroot-ed / chjail-ed environments or poor configuration.

Based on @Anomie answer, I made a workaround.

For phpmyadmin 4.4.3 change the Fallback setting in file libraries/DatabaseInterface.class.php

 /* Fallback to CP1252 if we can not detect */
        $encoding = 'UTF-8';

For some older versions, edit file libraries/database_interface.lib.php and set array $encodings => 'english' value to UTF-8 (~line 273),

'english'       => 'UTF-8', //'latin1',