Ah, thank you. That didn't exactly solve it, but it certainly pointed me in
the right direction. ++
I added that to my settings, and it still failed. I took a look at
VARIABLES and discovered the 'character_set_server' in my servers was latin1
SHOW VARIABLES LIKE 'character_set%';
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hi, I'm on OSX (Sierra), am running a local MySQL, version 5.7.17, running
django '2.0.dev20170122010200', and python mysqlclient 1.3.9 and 1.3.1 (I
tried both versions).
when I try to run the tests, it consistently fails with this stack trace
Traceback (most recent call last):
File
"/Users/
