From f7275f6b0efe7d7cb6216700b782f21ab766c641 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Pablo Hoffman <pablo@pablohoffman.com>
Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2008 17:23:30 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] made charset=utf8 by default in mysql_connect

--HG--
extra : convert_revision : svn%3Ab85faa78-f9eb-468e-a121-7cced6da292c%40328
---
 scrapy/trunk/scrapy/utils/db.py | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/scrapy/trunk/scrapy/utils/db.py b/scrapy/trunk/scrapy/utils/db.py
index a3aa5a672..053e05aa3 100644
--- a/scrapy/trunk/scrapy/utils/db.py
+++ b/scrapy/trunk/scrapy/utils/db.py
@@ -20,7 +20,8 @@ def mysql_connect(db_uri, **kwargs):
         if d['passwd'] is None:
             del(d['passwd'])
 
-        d.update(settings.get("MYSQL_CONNECTION_SETTINGS"))
+        d['charset'] = 'utf8'
+        d.update(settings.get("MYSQL_CONNECTION_SETTINGS", {}))
         d.update(kwargs)
         
         dcopy = d.copy()