From 7aaf9091a2563f31165188df981b90fc728ac655 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "W. Trevor King" <wking@drexel.edu>
Date: Sat, 26 Jun 2010 18:35:07 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Better Vallieres workaround: specify utf-8 charset ;)

---
 sitecore/prof/export_mysql.py | 7 +++----
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/sitecore/prof/export_mysql.py b/sitecore/prof/export_mysql.py
index c629c46..ba6bece 100644
--- a/sitecore/prof/export_mysql.py
+++ b/sitecore/prof/export_mysql.py
@@ -56,7 +56,8 @@ class SimpleDB (object):
         self.logger.info('logging in to %s:%s as %s'
                          % (host, database, username))
         self.db = MySQLdb.connect(host=host, user=username,
-                                  passwd=password, db=database)
+                                  passwd=password, db=database,
+                                  charset='UTF8')
         del(username)
         del(password)
         self.cursor = self.db.cursor()
@@ -68,7 +69,7 @@ class SimpleDB (object):
 
     def execute(self, command):
         self.logger.info(command)
-        self.cursor.execute(command)
+        self.cursor.execute(command.encode('utf-8'))
 
     def set_default_table(self, table):
         self.table = table
@@ -169,8 +170,6 @@ Where the relevant categories are
                 first_middle=prof['firstname'],
                 last=prof['lastname'],
                 )
-            if p.name.last.encode('hex') == '56616c6c69e8726573':
-                p.name.last = u'Valli\xe8res'
             p.title = prof['position']
             if prof['position1'] != None:
                 p.title += ', %s' % prof['position1']
-- 
2.26.2