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# Mac Homebrew command to install the RDS command-line tools
# Ubuntu users may find https://launchpad.net/~awstools-dev/+archive/awstools/ useful 
brew install rds-command-line-tools

rds-create-db-parameter-group mysql-utf8 -f mysql5.1 -d "MySQL 5.1 configured for UTF-8"

rds-modify-db-parameter-group mysql-utf8 \
    --parameters="name=character_set_server, value=utf8, method=immediate" \
    --parameters="name=character_set_client, value=utf8, method=immediate" \
    --parameters="name=character_set_results, value=utf8, method=immediate" \