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Having troubles with 'latin1_swedish_ci' on your MySQL Databases? Specially `OperationalError (1267, "Illegal mix of collations (latin1_swedish_ci,IMPLICIT) and (utf8_general_ci,COERCIBLE) for operation '='")`? No problem, fix it using Django's shell.This solution is based on this http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1073295/django-character-set-w…
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gistfile1.py
from django.db import connection
from django.conf import settings
cursor = connection.cursor()
cursor.execute('SHOW TABLES')
results=[]
for row in cursor.fetchall():
results.append(row)
for row in results:
cursor.execute('ALTER TABLE %s CONVERT TO CHARACTER SET utf8 COLLATE utf8_general_ci;' % (row[0]))
cursor.execute('ALTER DATABASE %s CHARACTER SET utf8;' % settings.DATABASES['default']['NAME'])
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