I don't think that MySQL has utf8 as the default character set,
consider converting to utf8.

Best regards,
Sytse Sijbrandij
CEO GitLab B.V.


On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 11:21 PM, Matthew Fleming
<[email protected]> wrote:
> MySQL: Original was 5.1.73 ==> now we're on MariaDB-5.533
> GitLab: Original 6.1 ==> now 6.6.2
>
> -Matt
>
> On Sep 19, 2014, at 10:34 AM, Sytse Sijbrandij <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> I'm not sure, can you give some background on your original MySQL
>> version and GitLab version?
>>
>> Please let me know if you have any questions or comments.
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Sytse Sijbrandij
>> CEO GitLab B.V.
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 4:15 PM, Matthew Fleming
>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> Thanks for the quick reply. Well the db was setup in accordance with the
>>> instructions. The db itself was set to utf8 character set and
>>> utf8_unicode_ci collation. We didn't manually create the tables or anything
>>> like that; I think the application is a rails app that does db migrations on
>>> startup. So the question is whoever 'creates' the merge_request_diffs table,
>>> didn't make this table with utf8. I'm just wondering how that happens?
>>>
>>> -Matt
>>>
>>> On Sep 19, 2014, at 8:51 AM, Sytse Sijbrandij <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>> I think your MySQL tables where set up with the incorrect character set.
>>>
>>> Please let me know if you have any questions or comments.
>>>
>>> Best regards,
>>> Sytse Sijbrandij
>>> CEO GitLab B.V.
>>>
>>>
>>> On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 3:47 PM, Matthew Fleming
>>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>> So here's the reason that unicode/utf-8 chars are bombing gitlab merge
>>> requests:
>>>
>>> ActiveRecord::StatementInvalid (Mysql2::Error: Incorrect string value:
>>> '\xE2\x86\xB4 \n...' for column 'st_diffs' at row 1: UPDATE
>>> `merge_request_diffs` SET `state` = 'collected', `st_diffs`
>>>
>>> The issue is that the merge_request_diffs table is not set to accept utf8
>>> characters.
>>>
>>> -Matt
>>>
>>> On Sep 3, 2014, at 10:14 AM, Matthew Fleming <[email protected]>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Right.. that does seem like it would cover it. I'm gonna check on the
>>> install that was done here (the guy who maintains the system is out until
>>> tomorrow). I'm gonna check the db settings and the
>>>
>>> -Matt
>>>
>>> On Sep 3, 2014, at 9:52 AM, Sytse Sijbrandij <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>> Mmm, sounds like a MySQL problem, should be covered with:
>>>
>>> mysql> CREATE DATABASE IF NOT EXISTS `gitlabhq_production` DEFAULT CHARACTER
>>> SET `utf8` COLLATE `utf8_unicode_ci`;
>>>
>>> from
>>> https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/blob/master/doc/install/database_mysql.md
>>>
>>>
>>> On Wed, Sep 3, 2014 at 3:59 PM, Matthew Fleming <[email protected]>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> I can try to write the test case but in the past the problem was just
>>> about creating the mysql database "properly". I can maybe get the admins to
>>> update the mysql db to support utf8 but here's how you would do that in a
>>> create script (I'm not sure how gitlab creates the db)..
>>>
>>> CREATE DATABASE db_name
>>> CHARACTER SET utf8
>>> DEFAULT CHARACTER SET utf8
>>> COLLATE utf8_general_ci
>>> DEFAULT COLLATE utf8_general_ci
>>> ;
>>>
>>> -Matt
>>>
>>> On Sep 3, 2014, at 8:05 AM, Sytse Sijbrandij <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi Matt,
>>>
>>> I think you are right, this is probably a GitLab or MySQL problem. I don't
>>> have an idea to solve it, it would be great if someone could write a failing
>>> test case for it.
>>>
>>> Sytse
>>>
>>>
>>> On Wed, Sep 3, 2014 at 3:01 PM, Matthew Fleming
>>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> Also the git commit locally had no issues, nor did the push to the
>>> server. What failed was the generation of the pull request due to an insert
>>> problem with mysql handling utf-8 characters.
>>>
>>> -Matt
>>>
>>> On Sep 3, 2014, at 4:19 AM, sytse <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>> Git can't handle UTF-8 characters in the branch as far as I know.
>>>
>>>
>>> On Friday, August 29, 2014 3:57:59 PM UTC+2, Matthew Fleming wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> Hey there,
>>>
>>> We are getting a 500 error when creating merge/pull requests from a
>>> branch that contains UTF-8 characters in the change log. Mysql freaks out
>>> about the unicode characters and doesn't allow the merge request to be
>>> written to the db. When I removed the utf8 chars things worked properly.
>>> Interestingly, the merge request to my own master branch (I was on a feature
>>> branch) was successful, so I'm thinking there is a slightly different path
>>> taken there. When I submitted the merge request across repositories it
>>> always failed however (until the character was removed).
>>>
>>> -Matt
>>>
>>>
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