Thank you for your reply, and I'm sorry I didn't see the open issue before
posting.
I can't promise a resolution, but I'll continue looking and testing.
For further information, this same issue also occurs with postgresql, as
I'd expect if it's occurring where I think it is. And I'm able to
There's an open issue for this:
https://github.com/stephenmcd/mezzanine/issues/1899
I believe the GitHub version of Mezzanine had the maximum supported Django
version changed to 2.0 prematurely, although there's been a ton of
compatibility work done and the issue you're looking at is the last
I created a new mezzanine project with the following software versions:
Linux 4.18.17-041817-generic (Ubuntu 18.04 with newer kernel)
MariaDB 10.1.34 (running fine after explicitly creating the database
with utf8 character encoding)
Python 3.6.6
Django 2.0.9 (from pypi)