Hi, Your report strikes me as quite weird, as I recently did the same without any trouble. Does your Apache installation allow for directives to be specified via .htcaccess? (look for "AllowOverride" in your Apache configurations)
You mention:
> Tried everything under the sun:
> modified /etc/php5/cli/php.ini (input_encoding, mbstring.http_input others)
> modified /etc/drupal/7/htaccess
> kept restarting apache and update.php ing.
How do you have configured the Apache↔PHP interface? You most likely
do so via libapache2-mod-php5; if so, editing /etc/php5/cli/php.ini
will have no effect, you have to edit /etc/php5/apache2/php.ini
instead. The directives that should be added there are:
ini_set('mbstring.http_input', 'pass');
ini_set('mbstring.http_output', 'pass');
You might want to refer to the following Drupal issues — Quite old
(2006 and 2008), but relevant to the issue at hand:
https://www.drupal.org/node/87138
https://www.drupal.org/node/211648
Particularly, there's one extra line one user mentions as useful to
him (and that's part of the .htaccess we ship):
php_value mbstring.encoding_translation 0
One further comment (#40) comments about this problem while using
Debian Jessie, and mentions the problem having disappeared after
adding the ini_set(...) lines in the
[drupal_folder]/sites/default/settings.php file.
Please do confirm if any of the above fix the problem for you!
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