utf-8 encoding is switchable at the engine level, ticket [ticket:101]

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/lib/sqlalchemy/engine.py b/lib/sqlalchemy/engine.py
index d61320533..269402f81 100644
--- a/lib/sqlalchemy/engine.py
+++ b/lib/sqlalchemy/engine.py
@@ -180,7 +180,7 @@ class SQLEngine(schema.SchemaEngine):
     SQLEngines are constructed via the create_engine() function inside this package.
     """
     
-    def __init__(self, pool=None, echo=False, logger=None, default_ordering=False, echo_pool=False, echo_uow=False, convert_unicode=False, **params):
+    def __init__(self, pool=None, echo=False, logger=None, default_ordering=False, echo_pool=False, echo_uow=False, convert_unicode=False, encoding='utf-8', **params):
         """constructs a new SQLEngine.   SQLEngines should be constructed via the create_engine()
         function which will construct the appropriate subclass of SQLEngine."""
         # get a handle on the connection pool via the connect arguments
@@ -197,6 +197,7 @@ class SQLEngine(schema.SchemaEngine):
         self.echo = echo
         self.echo_uow = echo_uow
         self.convert_unicode = convert_unicode
+        self.encoding = encoding
         self.context = util.ThreadLocal(raiseerror=False)
         self._ischema = None
         self._figure_paramstyle()