[Django]-Django model utf8 with legacy database

If you have access to your ‘settings.py’ file, then you can change the settings saying that your database is using ‘latin1’.

Following is the example of the ‘DATABASES’ configuration in ‘settings.py’ file.

DATABASES = {
    'default': {
        'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.mysql',
        'NAME': 'test_db',
        'USER': 'root',
        'PASSWORD': '',
        'HOST': '',
        'PORT': '3306',
        'OPTIONS': {
                    'charset': 'latin1',
                    'use_unicode': True, },
    }, 
}

I had similar issue earlier, checkout the link here Django database charset issue