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{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DiscussionForumPosting","headline":"dj.connection should allow specifying client character set","articleBody":"Related to ongoing unicode support discussions (see also #455 , #453).\r\n\r\nIn order to properly interoperate with a unicode-supporting schema, the datajoint connection object needs to provide a method to specify client character set encoding.\r\n\r\ne.g, when called something as follows should be passed according to some configuration:\r\n\r\n```\r\n$ sed -ne 92,95p ~/ve/lib/python3.6/site-packages/datajoint/connection.py\r\n        self._conn = client.connect(init_command=self.init_fun,\r\n                                    sql_mode=\"NO_ZERO_DATE,NO_ZERO_IN_DATE,ERROR_FOR_DIVISION_BY_ZERO,\"\r\n                                             \"STRICT_TRANS_TABLES,NO_AUTO_CREATE_USER,NO_ENGINE_SUBSTITUTION\", charset='utf8',\r\n                                    **self.conn_info)\r\n```\r\n\r\n(hard coding obviously not the correct solution - above example simply illustrative of function call 'charset' argument addition against current trunk for the specific case of utf8)","author":{"url":"https://github.com/ixcat","@type":"Person","name":"ixcat"},"datePublished":"2018-05-15T03:44:08.000Z","interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":"https://schema.org/CommentAction","userInteractionCount":1},"url":"https://github.com/468/datajoint-python/issues/468"}