Mysql variables set on seymour (May 7)

gistfile1.txt

SHOW VARIABLES LIKE 'character\_set\_%';

+--------------------------+--------+
| Variable_name            | Value  |
+--------------------------+--------+
| character_set_client     | latin1 | 
| character_set_connection | latin1 | 
| character_set_database   | utf8   | 
| character_set_filesystem | binary | 
| character_set_results    | latin1 | 
| character_set_server     | utf8   | 
| character_set_system     | utf8   | 
+--------------------------+--------+
7 rows in set (0.00 sec)


(In a rails console:)

irb(main):004:0> User.first.first_name.encoding
=> #<Encoding:ASCII-8BIT>
irb(main):005:0> "thing".encoding
=> #<Encoding:UTF-8>