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authorMariusz Felisiak <mariusz.felisiak@mga.com.pl>2015-09-15 22:01:31 +0200
committerTim Graham <timograham@gmail.com>2015-09-18 09:47:32 -0400
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* PostgreSQL users, refer to the `PostgreSQL manual`_ (section 22.3.2 in
PostgreSQL 9) for details on creating databases with the correct encoding.
+* Oracle users, refer to the `Oracle manual`_ for details on how to set
+ (`section 2`_) or alter (`section 11`_) the database character set encoding.
+
* SQLite users, there is nothing you need to do. SQLite always uses UTF-8
for internal encoding.
.. _MySQL manual: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.6/en/charset-database.html
.. _PostgreSQL manual: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/multibyte.html
+.. _Oracle manual: http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E11882_01/server.112/e10729/toc.htm
+.. _section 2: http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E11882_01/server.112/e10729/ch2charset.htm#NLSPG002
+.. _section 11: http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E11882_01/server.112/e10729/ch11charsetmig.htm#NLSPG011
All of Django's database backends automatically convert Unicode strings into
the appropriate encoding for talking to the database. They also automatically