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shopdb/plugins/alembic_template.py

@@ -34,6 +34,14 @@ from typing import Iterable
 from alembic import context
 from sqlalchemy import MetaData, pool
 
+# Registers the compiler hook that forces utf8mb4 + DYNAMIC on MySQL. Imported
+# for the side effect. It used to live inline in migrations/env.py, so it applied
+# to the CORE chain only: a plugin's baseline tables were created at the server's
+# default charset while core's were utf8mb4, on the same database. On a server
+# defaulting to latin1 that difference is invisible until a join between the two
+# stops using an index, or a character comes back mangled.
+import shopdb.utils.mysql_charset  # noqa: F401,E402
+
 logger = logging.getLogger('alembic.env.plugin')
 
 # Explicit table-ownership map. Adding tables to a plugin requires updating