Commit f03c6991 authored by Claude Paroz's avatar Claude Paroz
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[1.6.x] Fixed #21359 -- Corrected MySQL collation name in databases docs

Thanks k_sze for the report.
Backport of 67c6c1a7 from master.
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@@ -303,7 +303,7 @@ the model definition.
.. _documented thoroughly: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/charset.html

By default, with a UTF-8 database, MySQL will use the
``utf8_general_ci_swedish`` collation. This results in all string equality
``utf8_general_ci`` collation. This results in all string equality
comparisons being done in a *case-insensitive* manner. That is, ``"Fred"`` and
``"freD"`` are considered equal at the database level. If you have a unique
constraint on a field, it would be illegal to try to insert both ``"aa"`` and
@@ -340,7 +340,7 @@ bytestrings (which shouldn't be too difficult) as described above is the
recommended solution.

Should you decide to use ``utf8_bin`` collation for some of your tables with
MySQLdb 1.2.1p2 or 1.2.2, you should still use ``utf8_collation_ci_swedish``
MySQLdb 1.2.1p2 or 1.2.2, you should still use ``utf8_general_ci``
(the default) collation for the ``django.contrib.sessions.models.Session``
table (usually called ``django_session``) and the
``django.contrib.admin.models.LogEntry`` table (usually called