From 38fbae957ad408123b5ae6c2590aeb305c649978 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Chaz Littlejohn <chaz.littlejohn@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2011 06:10:07 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] charset needs to be set to 'utf8' for the MySQL connection to
 store unicode strings correctly

---
 pyfpdb/Database.py | 7 ++++++-
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/pyfpdb/Database.py b/pyfpdb/Database.py
index 38eb802e..5481d9b9 100644
--- a/pyfpdb/Database.py
+++ b/pyfpdb/Database.py
@@ -399,7 +399,12 @@ class Database:
             if use_pool:
                 MySQLdb = pool.manage(MySQLdb, pool_size=5)
             try:
-                self.connection = MySQLdb.connect(host=host, user=user, passwd=password, db=database, use_unicode=True)
+                self.connection = MySQLdb.connect(host=host
+                                                 ,user=user
+                                                 ,passwd=password
+                                                 ,db=database
+                                                 ,charset='utf8'
+                                                 ,use_unicode=True)
                 self.__connected = True
             #TODO: Add port option
             except MySQLdb.Error, ex: