diff --git a/apps/dynamic_search/managers.py b/apps/dynamic_search/managers.py
index 2b2a5ca313..5df299ac2c 100644
--- a/apps/dynamic_search/managers.py
+++ b/apps/dynamic_search/managers.py
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ class RecentSearchManager(models.Manager):
     def add_query_for_user(self, user, query, hits):
         parsed_query = urlparse.parse_qs(query)
         for key, value in parsed_query.items():
-            parsed_query[key] = u' '.join(value)
+            parsed_query[key] = ' '.join(value)
 
         if 'q=' in query:
             # Is a simple query
diff --git a/apps/dynamic_search/models.py b/apps/dynamic_search/models.py
index 17ccfa43d9..acf8f4ed97 100644
--- a/apps/dynamic_search/models.py
+++ b/apps/dynamic_search/models.py
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 import urlparse
+import urllib
 
 from datetime import datetime
 
@@ -6,6 +7,7 @@ from django.db import models
 from django.utils.translation import ugettext as _
 from django.contrib.auth.models import User
 from django.core.urlresolvers import reverse
+from django.utils.encoding import smart_unicode, smart_str
 
 from dynamic_search.managers import RecentSearchManager
 from dynamic_search.api import registered_search_dict
@@ -23,10 +25,10 @@ class RecentSearch(models.Model):
     objects = RecentSearchManager()
 
     def __unicode__(self):
-        query_dict = urlparse.parse_qs(self.query)
+        query_dict = urlparse.parse_qs(urllib.unquote_plus(smart_str(self.query)))
         if 'q' in query_dict:
             # Is a simple search
-            display_string = u' '.join(query_dict['q'])
+            display_string = smart_unicode(' '.join(query_dict['q']))
         else:
             # Advanced search
             advanced_string = []
@@ -38,7 +40,7 @@ class RecentSearch(models.Model):
                     # Find the field name title
                     for model_field in model_entry.get('fields', [{}]):
                         if model_field.get('name') == field_name:
-                            advanced_string.append(u'%s: %s' % (model_field.get('title', model_field['name']), u' '.join(value)))
+                            advanced_string.append(u'%s: %s' % (model_field.get('title', model_field['name']), smart_unicode(' '.join(value))))
 
             display_string = u', '.join(advanced_string)
         return u'%s (%s)' % (display_string, self.hits)
diff --git a/apps/main/__init__.py b/apps/main/__init__.py
index cea66b915b..ac43d99f7b 100644
--- a/apps/main/__init__.py
+++ b/apps/main/__init__.py
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ admin_site = {'text': _(u'admin site'), 'view': 'admin:index', 'famfam': 'keyboa
 __version_info__ = {
     'major': 0,
     'minor': 9,
-    'micro': 0,
+    'micro': 1,
     'releaselevel': 'final',
     'serial': 0
 }
diff --git a/docs/changelog.rst b/docs/changelog.rst
index e9f2f6b1a3..3102f87c95 100644
--- a/docs/changelog.rst
+++ b/docs/changelog.rst
@@ -1,3 +1,11 @@
+Version 0.9.1
+-------------
+* Added handling percent encoded unicode query strings in search URL,
+  thanks to (Сергей Глита [Sergei Glita]) for reporting.
+* Added a FAQ explaing how to fix MySQL collation related error when
+  doing searches also thanks to (Сергей Глита [Sergei Glita]) for
+  reporting this one.
+
 Version 0.9.0
 -------------
 * Simplified getting mimetypes from files by merging 2 implementations
diff --git a/docs/contributors.rst b/docs/contributors.rst
index fdd87cc290..40d36c8007 100644
--- a/docs/contributors.rst
+++ b/docs/contributors.rst
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@ Bug reports
 * Joost Cassee (joost@cassee.net, https://github.com/jcassee)
 * Brian Huxley
 * dAnjou (https://github.com/dAnjou)
+* Сергей Глита [Sergey Glita] (s.v.glita@gmail.com)
 
 Patches
 -------
diff --git a/docs/faq.rst b/docs/faq.rst
index 05f9248cae..e017c806b1 100644
--- a/docs/faq.rst
+++ b/docs/faq.rst
@@ -5,6 +5,28 @@ FAQ
 Frequently asked questions and solutions
 
 
+
+_mysql_exceptions.OperationalError: (1267, "Illegal mix of collations (latin1_swedish_ci,IMPLICIT) and (utf8_general_ci,COERCIBLE) for operation '='")
+------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+  * Solution::    
+
+    $ manage.py shell
+    >>> from django.db import connection 
+    >>> cursor = connection.cursor()
+    >>> cursor.execute('SHOW TABLES')
+    >>> results=[]
+    >>> for row in cursor.fetchall(): results.append(row)
+    >>> for row in results: cursor.execute('ALTER TABLE %s CONVERT TO CHARACTER SET utf8 COLLATE utf8_general_ci;' % (row[0]))
+
+
+  * References:
+   
+    - http://www.djangoshmango.com/?p=99
+    - http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1073295/django-character-set-with-mysql-weirdness
+        
+        
+        
 Incorrect string value: ``'\xE2\x80\x95rs6...'`` for column ``'content'`` at row 1
 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------