From bba79ce4b41aed9cf024a1b41a359ccf38731b01 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Russell Keith-Magee Date: Sun, 13 Jul 2008 11:47:09 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Fixed #7534 -- Added a note about TEST_DATABASE_CHARSET in the contribution documentation. Thanks to Peter Melvyn for the suggestion and initial draft. git-svn-id: http://code.djangoproject.com/svn/django/trunk@7916 bcc190cf-cafb-0310-a4f2-bffc1f526a37 --- docs/contributing.txt | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) diff --git a/docs/contributing.txt b/docs/contributing.txt index 61b24f47056..f3bee140696 100644 --- a/docs/contributing.txt +++ b/docs/contributing.txt @@ -738,6 +738,11 @@ If you're using another backend: deleted when the tests are finished. This means your user account needs permission to execute ``CREATE DATABASE``. +You will also need to ensure that your database uses UTF-8 as the default +character set. If your database server doesn't use UTF-8 as a default charset, +you will need to include a value for ``TEST_DATABASE_CHARSET`` in your settings +file. + If you want to run the full suite of tests, you'll need to install a number of dependencies: