Re: Support Kanji Characters

On development, there are two things you need to watch for, one is the encoding used by the storage engine of your local mysql instance. The second is the encoding using by appengine (dev. server) to connect to your local mysql instance.

Both encodings should ideally match and support the characterset you are concerned about.

Note that in production, the connection encoding setting is ignored (you should even see a warning message in the appengine logs about that), and utf-8 is used by default. So if it works okay in production, this gives you a pretty good hint of what is it that is wrong with your dev. setup ;)