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Asked: 2026-06-14T00:37:53+00:00

Note: Copying and elaborating upon this question and answer from: https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!topic/django-users/OW_uSWCoObs : Hi, I

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Note: Copying and elaborating upon this question and answer from: https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!topic/django-users/OW_uSWCoObs:

Hi, I was trying to go through the GeoDjango tutorial and when I try to import data with LayerMapping I’m getting the following error:

  Warning: Incorrect string value: '\xC2\x85land...' for column 'name' at row 1

I’m using MySQL and my charset and collation are set to latin1 (I also tried utf8).

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    Inserting iso-8859-1 (latin1) characters into a utf8 column causes MySQL to throw that error.

    This can be solved by changing the encoding in the line in the tutorial for world/load.py from this:

    lm = LayerMapping(WorldBorder, world_shp, world_mapping,
                  transform=False, encoding='iso-8859-1')

    To the following …

    lm = LayerMapping(WorldBorder, world_shp, world_mapping,
                  transform=False, encoding='utf8')

    For more, see MySQL "incorrect string value" error when save unicode string in Django

    Generally, see http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=30131 for more detail, particularly if you are a Windows user (don’t be mislead by the URL—this is not a bug).

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