sequel never returns utf-8, just ascii-8bit

Question

There is this mysql database I\'m trying to connect to. DataMapper fetches everything nicely in UTF-8 but Sequel always returns strings in ASCII-8bit which produces errors w

Answer 1

Encoding can be passed as do :

Sequel.connect("mysql2://user:pass@localhost/the_database?encoding=utf8")

Answer 2

Try Sequel.mysql2 instead of Sequel.mysql. Sequel.mysql uses the old mysql driver instead of the new mysql2 driver, and I don't believe the mysql driver supports encodings.