Error 1271 when searching on frontend

[VMRESLO]

Hello everyone!

When I try searching and use characters "č" "ž" "š"on the frontend of my Virtumart shop I am getting Error 1271, which states:

An error has occurred while processing your request.

You may not be able to visit this page because of:

an out-of-date bookmark/favourite
a mistyped address
a search engine that has an out-of-date listing for this site
you have no access to this page
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1271 Illegal mix of collations for operation 'like' SQL=SELECT SQL_CALC_FOUND_ROWS p.`virtuemart_product_id` FROM `5yl_virtuemart_products` as p INNER JOIN `5yl_virtuemart_products_en_gb` as l using (`virtuemart_product_id`) LEFT JOIN `5yl_virtuemart_product_shoppergroups` as ps ON p.`virtuemart_product_id` = `ps`.`virtuemart_product_id` LEFT JOIN `5yl_virtuemart_product_categories` as pc ON p.`virtuemart_product_id` = `pc`.`virtuemart_product_id` LEFT JOIN `5yl_virtuemart_product_manufacturers` ON p.`virtuemart_product_id` = `5yl_virtuemart_product_manufacturers`.`virtuemart_product_id` LEFT JOIN `5yl_virtuemart_manufacturers_en_gb` as m ON m.`virtuemart_manufacturer_id` = `5yl_virtuemart_product_manufacturers`.`virtuemart_manufacturer_id` LEFT JOIN `5yl_virtuemart_product_prices` as pp ON p.`virtuemart_product_id` = pp.`virtuemart_product_id` WHERE ((`l`.product_name LIKE "%č%" OR `l`.product_s_desc LIKE "%č%" OR `mf_name` LIKE "%č%" OR `product_price` LIKE "%č%" OR `p`.modified_on LIKE "%č%") AND ((p.`product_parent_id` = "0" AND `pc`.`virtuemart_category_id` > "0") OR p.`product_parent_id` > "0") AND ((p.`product_parent_id` > "0" AND `pc`.`virtuemart_category_id` > "0") OR p.`product_parent_id` = "0") AND ( `ps`.`virtuemart_shoppergroup_id`= "1" OR `ps`.`virtuemart_shoppergroup_id` IS NULL ) AND p.`published`="1" ) group by p.`virtuemart_product_id` ORDER BY product_s_desc ASC LIMIT 0, 24

Please help, I have no idea how to fix this. I have allready changed the collation in phpmyadmin to utf8_general_ci and nothing happened. When I try the same on the backend everything works. Is this a problem with VM - Search in Shop module?

I am using VirtueMart 3.0.6.2 on joomla 3.4.1 with php 5.5.

Thank you in advance and best regards to all!

[GJC Web Design]

try switching on Joomla debug so you can see the DB queries (scroll down)

Is there a difference between a BE & FE query?
What if you search from the VM cat view?