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diff --git a/lib/sqlalchemy/dialects/mysql/pyodbc.py b/lib/sqlalchemy/dialects/mysql/pyodbc.py
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"""Support for the MySQL database via the pyodbc adapter.
+pyodbc is available at:
+
+ http://pypi.python.org/pypi/pyodbc/
+
+Connecting
+----------
+
+Connect string::
+
+ mysql+pyodbc://<username>:<password>@<dsnname>
+
+Limitations
+-----------
+
+The mysql-pyodbc dialect is subject to unresolved character encoding issues
+which exist within the current ODBC drivers available.
+(see http://code.google.com/p/pyodbc/issues/detail?id=25). Consider usage
+of OurSQL, MySQLdb, or MySQL-connector/Python.
+
"""
from sqlalchemy.dialects.mysql.base import MySQLDialect, MySQLExecutionContext