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| -rw-r--r-- | django/db/backends/mysql/base.py | 2 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/django/db/backends/mysql/base.py b/django/db/backends/mysql/base.py index 081c1185a5..94718595cb 100644 --- a/django/db/backends/mysql/base.py +++ b/django/db/backends/mysql/base.py @@ -80,6 +80,8 @@ class DatabaseWrapper(local): if not self._valid_connection(): kwargs = { 'conv': django_conversions, + 'charset': 'utf8', + 'use_unicode': False, } if settings.DATABASE_USER: kwargs['user'] = settings.DATABASE_USER |