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__ https://www.postgresql.org/docs/10/static/auth-methods.html#AUTH-PEER
+.. note::
+
+ As noted in the `Django documentation`__, Django expects databases to be
+ configured with an encoding of UTF-8 or UTF-16. If using MySQL, you may
+ need to configure this this explicitly as older versions defaulted to
+ `latin1` encoding. Refer to the `MySQL documentation`__ for more
+ information.
+
+ __ https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/3.1/ref/unicode/
+ __ https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/en/charset.html
+
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