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MySQL with Django on Debian

By Andrew Berezovskyi

First, install MySQL driver for Python:

sudo apt-get install python-mysqldb

Next, modify your config of MySQL: http://dba.stackexchange.com/a/8289

If you’ve already messed up the install, you can either drop/create database from scratch, or apply the following script to every table of your DB:

ALTER TABLE `table` CONVERT TO CHARACTER SET utf8 COLLATE utf8_unicode_ci;

Alternative mirgation path: http://docs.joomla.org/Convert_a_MySQL_database_to_UTF-8