title: django character set with MySQL weirdness
body: <p>I'm seeing</p>
  
  <pre><code>OperationalError (1267, "Illegal mix of collations (latin1_swedish_ci,IMPLICIT) and (utf8_general_ci,COERCIBLE) for operation '='")
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>It looks like some of my variables are UTF8 strings</p>
  
  <p>'name': 'p\xc7\x9d\xca\x87\xc9\x9f\xc4\xb1\xc9\xa5s Badge'</p>
  
  <p>Is this a configuration issue? If so, how can i solve it? I'd like to handle everything in Unicode (I think).</p>