The db library expects to talk to the MySQL server using utf8. If you manage to change the connection encoding (eg with SET NAMES), it is likely to confuse the db library and either corrupt data or make the connection fail with an error.
Can you explain what you want to accomplish? Ryan On Sat, Jul 11, 2020 at 12:06 PM Bonface Munyoki <bonfacemuny...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi all. > > I'm using racket to connect to mysql using the db library. I'd like to > do something like: > > --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- > `sqlalchemy.create_engine(SQL_URI+'?charset=latin1&use_unicode=0')` > --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- > > basically adding the equivalent of "charset=latin1&use_unicode=0" in the > SQL_URI. I can't seem to find a way to do that in racket. Would anyone > have an idea of how I would do that? > --- > Bonface M. K.(https://www.bonfacemunyoki.com/) > One Emacs to rule them all > GPG key = D4F09EB110177E03C28E2FE1F5BBAE1E0392253F > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Racket Users" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to racket-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/racket-users/CABAzU5te7aqX%2B6oxUTK8qKr1XA%3DTL1TEL-Eco1s0_vBEC2F09Q%40mail.gmail.com > . > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Racket Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to racket-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/racket-users/CANy33q%3DZS7AXaiHFHMuKkf3o7jr2BQ_zQzK9djmUCqXHn0x4Cw%40mail.gmail.com.
