- set explicit encoding settings for default mysql driver

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/setup.cfg b/setup.cfg
index dc10877f7..2d203f1ed 100644
--- a/setup.cfg
+++ b/setup.cfg
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ pg8000=postgresql+pg8000://scott:tiger@127.0.0.1:5432/test
 postgres=postgresql://scott:tiger@127.0.0.1:5432/test
 postgresql_jython=postgresql+zxjdbc://scott:tiger@127.0.0.1:5432/test
 postgresql_psycopg2cffi=postgresql+psycopg2cffi://scott:tiger@127.0.0.1:5432/test
-mysql=mysql://scott:tiger@127.0.0.1:3306/test
+mysql=mysql://scott:tiger@127.0.0.1:3306/test?charset=utf8&use_unicode=0
 mysqlconnector=mysql+mysqlconnector://scott:tiger@127.0.0.1:3306/test
 mssql=mssql+pyodbc://scott:tiger@ms_2008
 oursql=mysql+oursql://scott:tiger@127.0.0.1:3306/test