<p>I'm experiencing the problems described above if the connection to mysql uses the option<br>
<code>mysql_enable_utf8=1</code>.<br>
With this setting enabled german umlauts loaded from fixtures are broken.</p>

<p>After disabling this option and loading the fixtures again with <code>populate</code> the umlauts are correctly stored.</p>

<p>Without looking into the code i assume that strings are not encoded to utf8 before saving them to the DB. However, with <code>mysql_enable_utf8=1</code> the driver expects strings in UTF8.</p>

<p>It would be great if using fixtures would work if mysql_enable_utf8 is used symmetrically:<br>
A fixture created with <code>mysql_enable_utf8=0</code> can and should be loaded with the same setting. This should also be true for <code>mysql_enable_utf8=1</code>.</p>

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