Question

I have table with Persian data and utf8_general_ci collection and with php program i was inserted data to database.

now i have new program with python – django and want view data but all data is bad view like پست
why? and what i can do for solve this problem?

ps: when i insert new data with python, all things is correct and view correctly.

Answer 1

If you’re running into the problem where unicode items in your Django / MySQL project are displayed as question marks, here’s the likely problem and solution, found in this django-users thread:

The likely problem is that your MySQL encoding is set to latin1, as opposed to utf8. You can check this via:

 mysqld --verbose --help | grep character-set

You’ll probably see:

character-set-server              latin1

You want this to be uft8. To modify it, edit your my.conf file ( /etc/mysql/my.conf on ubuntu ), adding the following lines to the appropriate sections:

[client]
...
default-character-set = utf8

[mysqld]
...
character-set-server=utf8
collation-server=utf8_unicode_ci
init_connect='set collation_connection = utf8_unicode_ci;'

Now restart mysql:

sudo /etc/init.d/mysql restart

And alter your existing tables to use the utf8 encoding:

mysql your_db_name

alter table your_table_name convert to character set utf8;

And that should do it.