MySQL “incorrect string value” error when save unicode string in Django
Why this happens?
You cannot store 4-byte characters in MySQL with the utf-8 character set.
solution
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 | #! /usr/bin/env python
import MySQLdb
host = "localhost"
passwd = "passwd"
user = "youruser"
dbname = "yourdbname"
db = MySQLdb.connect(host=host, user=user, passwd=passwd, db=dbname)
cursor = db.cursor()
cursor.execute("ALTER DATABASE `%s` CHARACTER SET 'utf8' COLLATE 'utf8_unicode_ci'" % dbname)
sql = "SELECT DISTINCT(table_name) FROM information_schema.columns WHERE table_schema = '%s'" % dbname
cursor.execute(sql)
results = cursor.fetchall()
for row in results:
sql = "ALTER TABLE `%s` convert to character set DEFAULT COLLATE DEFAULT" % (row[0])
cursor.execute(sql)
db.commit()
db.close()
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Reference:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2108824