[Monetdb-developers] encoding of strings returned by Python client

Any chance the Python client could be modified to return strings in Unicode instead of UTF-8?

Seems like a better fit for Python; for example, that's how Python's sqlite3 module behaves.

An alternative approach is to expose a set_encoding method on the connection that let's you specify the encoding of all text fields returned.

If backward compatibility is an issue, the latter idea seems better even though it adds a knob.

Any comments?

(Is the maintainer of the Python adapter active even on this list? I didn't see many Python-specific posts in the archives.)

Thanks,

m