I believe we are doing this for MySQL by virtue of our docker_run.sh (or equivalent admn setup that follows that docker approach); and that SQLAlchemy defaults to 'utf8' encoding.
But arguably we should be using the MySQL-specific encoding 'utf8mb4', which allows for the full Unicode standard.
See http:// docs.sqlalchemy .org/en/ latest/ dialects/ mysql.html# unicode
I believe we are doing this for MySQL by virtue of our docker_run.sh (or equivalent admn setup that follows that docker approach); and that SQLAlchemy defaults to 'utf8' encoding.
But arguably we should be using the MySQL-specific encoding 'utf8mb4', which allows for the full Unicode standard.