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I just ran into this same issue today. I have the database and tables set up with utf8mb4, but as soon as I add: 'OPTIONS': { 'charset': 'utf8mb4', } I...

Yes, I have successfully done this by encoding/decoding in/out of the database, and it works fine. Just unfortunate to have to add the extra code :)

The issue isn't getting the database or Django set up for utf8mb4, though. The issue is that the MySQL driver that app engine uses doesn't support that character set. I...

OK, excellent, thanks for clarifying. I was worried I had described the problem inadequately and you were perhaps fixing the wrong thing :) I misunderstood the get_new_connection fix, too. I...

Just wanted to poke in here and see if the final fix was deployed: "This should all stop being a problem sometime in the next few months (we have a...

As a final followup, this appears to be working now with no changes to Django code needed! My database settings now has: ` 'OPTIONS': {'charset': 'utf8mb4'}` And I changed the...