title: How do you change the collation type for a MySQL column?
body: <p>I'm having the utf-8 Vs. byte string problems mentioned here: <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2168816/django-headache-with-simple-non-ascii-string">Django headache with simple non-ascii string</a></p>
  
  <p>I don't care about case sensitive matching in the MySQL columns, I just always want UTF-8 strings returned because I find it is impossible to deal with byte strings returned for character columns for non-ascii text.</p>
  
  <p>How do I change my MySQL collation type so that UTF-8 strings are always returned through Django?</p>