How to set the encoding for the tables' char columns in django?

Question

I have a project written in Django. All fields that are supposed to store some strings are supposed to be in UTF-8, however, when I run

manage.py syncdb
         


        

Answer 1

What is your MySQL encoding set to?

For example, try the following from the command line:

 mysqld --verbose --help | grep character-set

If it doesn't output utf8, then you'll need to set the output in my.cnf:

[mysqld]
character-set-server=utf8
default-collation=utf8_unicode_ci

[client]
default-character-set=utf8

This page has some more information:

• http://www.zulutown.com/blog/tag/character-set/