The flapping is cleanup related - the errors are because we are not setting the collation correctly when we create the db

We could do it at the mysql level

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/45729326/how-to-change-the-default-character-set-of-mysql-using-docker-compose/53629912

but since we have one mysql command for all it would be better if I figured out how to do it at the db create level