Added new TEST_DATABASE_CHARSET and TEST_DATABASE_COLLATION settings to ensure

that databases are created with the expected encoding during testing.


git-svn-id: http://code.djangoproject.com/svn/django/trunk@5380 bcc190cf-cafb-0310-a4f2-bffc1f526a37

1 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/docs/testing.txt b/docs/testing.txt
index 4e5d1ec079..d36d5204e2 100644
--- a/docs/testing.txt
+++ b/docs/testing.txt
@@ -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.