I'm seeing

```
OperationalError (1267, "Illegal mix of collations (latin1_swedish_ci,IMPLICIT) and (utf8_general_ci,COERCIBLE) for operation '='")

```

It looks like some of my variables are UTF8 strings

'name': 'p\xc7\x9d\xca\x87\xc9\x9f\xc4\xb1\xc9\xa5s Badge'

Is this a configuration issue? If so, how can i solve it? I'd like to handle everything in Unicode (I think).