Zestaw znaków django z dziwnością MySQL

Możesz zmienić kodowanie tabeli za pomocą powłoki:

$ manage.py shell
>>> from django.db import connection
>>> cursor = connection.cursor()
>>> cursor.execute('SHOW TABLES')
>>> results=[]
>>> for row in cursor.fetchall(): results.append(row)
>>> for row in results: cursor.execute('ALTER TABLE %s CONVERT TO CHARACTER SET utf8 COLLATE     utf8_general_ci;' % (row[0]))

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