Merge pull request #3 from ixcat/unicode

unicode patch-in-progress

Author: dimitri-yatsenko

datajoint/connection.py

@@ -94,7 +94,7 @@ def connect(self):
             warnings.filterwarnings('ignore', '.*deprecated.*')
             self._conn = client.connect(init_command=self.init_fun,
                                         sql_mode="NO_ZERO_DATE,NO_ZERO_IN_DATE,ERROR_FOR_DIVISION_BY_ZERO,"
-                                                 "STRICT_TRANS_TABLES,NO_AUTO_CREATE_USER,NO_ENGINE_SUBSTITUTION",
+                                                 "STRICT_TRANS_TABLES,NO_AUTO_CREATE_USER,NO_ENGINE_SUBSTITUTION", charset="utf8",
                                         **self.conn_info)
 
     def register(self, schema):

datajoint/declare.py

@@ -177,7 +177,7 @@ def declare(full_table_name, definition, context):
                        ['PRIMARY KEY (`' + '`,`'.join(primary_key) + '`)'] +
                        foreign_key_sql +
                        index_sql) +
-            '\n) ENGINE=InnoDB, CHARACTER SET latin1, COMMENT "%s"' % table_comment), uses_external
+            '\n) ENGINE=InnoDB, COMMENT "%s"' % table_comment), uses_external
 
 
 def compile_attribute(line, in_key, foreign_key_sql):