docker_internal/sql: explicitly set utf8 char set
Mariadb defaults to latin1.. which causes problems with python3 if we do not explicitly encode/decode strings before sending them to sql.
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Mariadb defaults to latin1.. which causes problems with python3 if we do not explicitly encode/decode strings before sending them to sql.