INSTALL: Sprinkle a few UTF-8 in the mysql documentation

[patchwork] / docs / INSTALL

diff --git a/docs/INSTALL b/docs/INSTALL
index dad9c7efa0caf4776bfaaf456e7b70d80e87e947..d40ddd2e7d072528728dbee47c4204a45b36e2ac 100644 (file)
--- a/docs/INSTALL
+++ b/docs/INSTALL
@@ -65,7 +65,7 @@ in brackets):
 
     For MySQL:
         $ mysql
-        > CREATE DATABASE 'patchwork';
+        > CREATE DATABASE 'patchwork' CHARACTER SET utf8;
         > CREATE USER 'www-data'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY '<password>';
         > CREATE USER 'nobody'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY '<password>';
 
@@ -81,9 +81,14 @@ in brackets):
                 'USER': 'patchwork',
                 'PASSWORD': 'my_secret_password',
                 'NAME': 'patchwork',
+                'TEST_CHARSET': 'utf8',
             },
         }
 
+        TEST_CHARSET is used when creating tables for the test suite. Without
+        it, tests checking for the correct handling of non-ASCII characters
+        fail.
+
 2. Django setup
 
         Set up some initial directories in the patchwork base directory: