[jira] [Created] (FINERACT-1851) Modify ReadMe.md to address default character set issue with windows

["Kigenyi Wilfred (Jira)" <ji...@apache.org>]

Kigenyi Wilfred created FINERACT-1851:
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             Summary: Modify ReadMe.md to address default character set issue with windows
                 Key: FINERACT-1851
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FINERACT-1851
             Project: Apache Fineract
          Issue Type: Improvement
          Components: Docs
    Affects Versions: 1.8.2
         Environment: Windows
            Reporter: Kigenyi Wilfred
             Fix For: 1.8.3


When creating databases and tables with mysql/mariadb on Windows servers, the default character set is UTF8MB3. The character set UTF8MB3 allows for columns to store up to 3 bytes.

The display_symbol column in the fineract_default.m_currency table requires 4bytes, so if the default character set is used when creating the database fineract_default with the following command:

_CREATE DATABASE fineract_default_

then the migration script to insert the currencies will fail with an error similar to:

_Incorrect string value: `\xE2\x82\xA1` for column display_symbol ..._

To rectify this, the default character set has to be overridden when creating the fineract_default database with the following command

_CREATE DATABASE fineract_default_ CHARACTER SET utf8mb4

This allows for the 4bytes needed to store the data in the m_currency.display_symbol and the migration script will run just fine.



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