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diff --git a/lib/sqlalchemy/engine/default.py b/lib/sqlalchemy/engine/default.py
index 3e8e96a42..b8c3768a8 100644
--- a/lib/sqlalchemy/engine/default.py
+++ b/lib/sqlalchemy/engine/default.py
@@ -191,6 +191,10 @@ class DefaultDialect(interfaces.Dialect):
self.returns_unicode_strings = self._check_unicode_returns(connection)
+ if self.description_encoding is not None and \
+ self._check_unicode_description(connection):
+ self._description_decoder = self.description_encoding = None
+
self.do_rollback(connection.connection)
def on_connect(self):
@@ -248,6 +252,26 @@ class DefaultDialect(interfaces.Dialect):
else:
return unicode_for_varchar
+ def _check_unicode_description(self, connection):
+ # all DBAPIs on Py2K return cursor.description as encoded,
+ # until pypy2.1beta2 with sqlite, so let's just check it -
+ # it's likely others will start doing this too in Py2k.
+
+ if util.py2k and not self.supports_unicode_statements:
+ cast_to = util.binary_type
+ else:
+ cast_to = util.text_type
+
+ cursor = connection.connection.cursor()
+ cursor.execute(
+ cast_to(
+ expression.select([
+ expression.literal_column("'x'").label("some_label")
+ ]).compile(dialect=self)
+ )
+ )
+ return isinstance(cursor.description[0][0], util.text_type)
+
def type_descriptor(self, typeobj):
"""Provide a database-specific :class:`.TypeEngine` object, given
the generic object which comes from the types module.