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diff --git a/docs/testing.txt b/docs/testing.txt index 92edf46e09..d36d5204e2 100644 --- a/docs/testing.txt +++ b/docs/testing.txt @@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ Testing Django applications Automated testing is an extremely useful bug-killing tool for the modern Web developer. You can use a collection of tests -- a **test suite** -- to -to solve, or avoid, a number of problems: +solve, or avoid, a number of problems: * When you're writing new code, you can use tests to validate your code works as expected. @@ -571,6 +571,16 @@ database settings will the same as they would be for the project normally. If you wish to use a name other than the default for the test database, you can use the ``TEST_DATABASE_NAME`` setting to provide a name. + +**New in Django development version:** If you wish to have fine-grained +control over the character set encoding used in your database, you can control +this with the ``TEST_DATABASE_CHARSET`` setting. For MySQL users, you can also +control the particular collation used by the test database with the +``TEST_DATABASE_COLLATION`` setting. Refer to the settings_ documentation for +details of these advanced settings. + +.. _settings: ../settings.txt + The test database is created by the user in the ``DATABASE_USER`` setting. This user needs to have sufficient privileges to create a new database on the system. |