Re: mysqlIndexerTest.test_unicode fails for me

I've now exchanged the german and the russian test. The russian version
fails with:
*** UnicodeEncodeError: UnicodeEncodeError('latin-1', u'\u0420\u0423\u0421\u0421\u041a\u0418\u0419', 0, 7, 'ordinal not in range(256)')

Why is it trying to use latin1 for conversion?

The database connection seems to use a latin1 collation:
(Pdb) p self.db.cursor.connection.get_character_set_info()
{'collation': 'latin1_swedish_ci', 'mbminlen': 1, 'mbmaxlen': 1, 'name': 'latin1'}

Anybody more familiar with mysql who can tell me in what configuration I
have to look to fix this?

Note that for Python3 it is OK:
(Pdb) p self.db.cursor.connection.get_character_set_info()
{'name': 'utf8', 'collation': 'utf8_general_ci', 'mbminlen': 1, 'mbmaxlen': 3}

I may have changed some configuration in the depth of time, that system
has been upgraded since at least debian stretch or earlier.

Ralf
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