Can't set character_set_results to latin1
问题 I've decided to use Django 1.7 for the first time with Python 3. I need to be able to work with legacy latin1 database which contains utf8 data. I know it sucks, but the database is so huge that it's really impossible to change this. So I tried following: DATABASES = { 'ENGINE' : 'django.db.backends.mysql', // using MySQL-python fork with support for py3 ... 'OPTIONS' : { 'init_command': "SET character_set_results = 'latin1'", #'read_default_file': '/etc/my.cnf.d/client.cnf', // I've also