MySQL编码问题

我正在处理一些外部API,当我保存到数据库时,我接收到一些编码错误,我处理的所有内容都是Unicode;但是MySQL编码设置为Ti-Latin1。

它在我的本地系统上似乎工作正常,但在服务器上抛出了错误。环境之间的唯一区别是本地运行python2.6,而远程服务器运行python2.5

以下是MySQL规范:

mysql> SHOW VARIABLES LIKE "character\_set\_database";
+------------------------+--------+
| Variable_name          | Value  |
+------------------------+--------+
| character_set_database | latin1 | 
+------------------------+--------+
1 row in set (0.00 sec)

mysql> SHOW VARIABLES LIKE 'character\_set\_%';
+--------------------------+--------+
| Variable_name            | Value  |
+--------------------------+--------+
| character_set_client     | latin1 | 
| character_set_connection | latin1 | 
| character_set_database   | latin1 | 
| character_set_filesystem | binary | 
| character_set_results    | latin1 | 
| character_set_server     | latin1 | 
| character_set_system     | utf8   | 
+--------------------------+--------+
7 rows in set (0.00 sec)

下面是我遇到的错误:

Incorrect string value: '\xCB\x8Cs&ae...' for column 'content' at row 1

我应该做什么MySQL设置更改,以不再处理编码问题。