Django + MySQL - Unknown encoding: utf8mb4

Question

MySQL 5.5.35 Django 1.6.1

In order to support emoticons in the DB, I have configured in my django settings:

\'OPTIONS\': {\'charset\': \'utf8mb4\'}
         


        

Answer 1

https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/18392#comment:10

As a workaround, you can make python understand 'utf8mb4' as an alias for 'utf8':

import codecs
codecs.register(lambda name: codecs.lookup('utf8') if name == 'utf8mb4' else None)