Setting Django/MySQL site to use UTF8 Stack Overflow

All I had to do was put this insettings.py:

'OPTIONS':{'init_command':'SET storage_engine=INNODB'}

Then I created the database myself in MySQL with:

CREATEDATABASE my_database CHARACTER SET utf8;

followed by all theCREATE USERandGRANTcalls.

After that,./manage.py syncdband./manage.py migrate(since I use South) finished everything up.

It's been working fine so far. Didn't have to change any MySQL config files,