Shawn Church wrote:
> 
> 
> On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 7:37 PM, Michael Bayer <[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote:
> 
>     we can of course add more functions to the list of "known" functions
>     such as ifnull() (it would be best if ifnull() is a SQL standard
>     function, I'm not sure if it is).
> 
> 
> Not sure this will work for IFNULL since it's type depends upon the 
> runtime arguments.  I missed the func type_ argument when I read the 
> documentation.  That is a good solution for the general case of 
> specifiying the type when it cannot be determined from the function or 
> the function arguments.  In fact I'm going to use it any time the type 
> is not obvious.
> 
> For what it is worth the following patch modifies ResultProxy to convert 
> strings to unicode if convert_unicode == True.  It 'fixes' my example 
> and test/testall.py still passes.

Adding ?charset=utf8&use_unicode=1 to your MySQL connection URL is a 
much easier way to get Unicode back from all DB access.


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