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19194	dumpdata cannot support utf-8 encoding in mysql5.5	tony.li@…	nobody	"I have tried using dumpdata to get testing data for unit testing,
When I load the .json / xml fixture files inside the test.py,
the console always prompt warning about the incorrect string value

Warning: Incorrect string value: '\xE7\x94\xB7\xE8\xA3\x9D' for column 'DIS_NAME' at row 1

when I try assertEqual the value, they only found a '?' char, which I think the database did not get the parsing correct at the very beginning. 

ps. The 'DIS_NAME' is in chinese 

and so I tried decode and encode back shown in http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2137501/django-dumpdata-utf-8-unicode, 
it show me :
DeserializationError: Invalid control character at: line 1 column 4793 (char 4793)
 
The production or dev sever are running with no problem... it just happen in unit test fixture.
"	Bug	closed	Core (Management commands)	1.4	Normal	duplicate	dumpdata		Unreviewed	0	0	0	0	0	0