Force utf8 with mysqldb connections
Depending on distro, or ???, this is sometimes set to the mysqldb default of latin-1, which fails when python3 tries to send sql utf8 strings. This forces the database to use utf8, in more than one way.
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Depending on distro, or ???, this is sometimes set to the mysqldb default of latin-1, which fails when python3 tries to send sql utf8 strings. This forces the database to use utf8, in more than one way.