[Modeling-users] working in unicode?

[Mario R. <ma...@ru...>]

Hello,

i would like to be able to write and read unicode (as transparently as
possible) to a text attribute. Postgres/PyPgSQL supports this (see the
'Databases' section in http://dalchemy.com/opensource/unicodedoc/
-- an article I found very useful). However I have no idea about mysql.

It seems that modeling operates in latin-1? Is this true?
Can I work around this in any way, or configure the framework to
assume utf-8 as encoding? The problem with latin-1 is that it
is not a unicode encoding, so even if most of the special characters
I would need to handle now are latin-1, sooner than later there will
be problems.

Regards, mario