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| author | Niclas Olofsson <n@niclasolofsson.se> | 2014-07-26 13:36:40 +0200 |
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| committer | Tim Graham <timograham@gmail.com> | 2014-07-26 09:40:31 -0400 |
| commit | 1c714c18d22a38ad2dca696ca8bc4201cc3da131 (patch) | |
| tree | b42e6a8b0bbd3f0452f080d973499bb2293c64f9 /docs | |
| parent | 2630cafc86bf6cc86ec8b47f0074b42f45b1f944 (diff) | |
[1.6.x] Fixed #22305 -- Added note to docs about UTF8 database requirement.
Backport of 08b85de9b7 from master
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| -rw-r--r-- | docs/ref/databases.txt | 8 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/docs/ref/databases.txt b/docs/ref/databases.txt index e2cd7e3d05..2f1a17058c 100644 --- a/docs/ref/databases.txt +++ b/docs/ref/databases.txt @@ -81,6 +81,14 @@ either restore Django's defaults at the end of each request, force an appropriate value at the beginning of each request, or disable persistent connections. +Encoding +-------- + +Django assumes that all databases use UTF-8 encoding. Using other encodings may +result in unexpected behavior such as "value too long" errors from your +database for data that is valid in Django. See the database specific notes +below for information on how to set up your database correctly. + .. _postgresql-notes: PostgreSQL notes |