charset needs to be set to 'utf8' for the MySQL connection to store unicode strings correctly

2011-03-29 06:10:07 +00:00 · 2011-03-29 06:10:07 +00:00 · 38fbae957a
commit 38fbae957a
parent 300340218b
1 changed files with 6 additions and 1 deletions
--- 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: