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

If you really need utf8mb4, follow the steps in https://mathiasbynens.be/notes/mysql-utf8mb4, and make sure your python package "MySQL-python" version is >= 1.2.5 !