From 4998c99d050430c51f0d0d51ea6fc2fabc4ae1cb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Andreas Rumpf <rumpf_a@web.de>
Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2015 01:32:26 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Merge pull request #2337 from kemege/db_charset

Add character set options when opening DB connection, default to UTF-8
---
 src/db_sqlite.nim | 14 +++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/db_sqlite.nim b/src/db_sqlite.nim
index bf1ce75ef7..4be692f390 100644
--- a/src/db_sqlite.nim
+++ b/src/db_sqlite.nim
@@ -192,7 +192,19 @@ proc open*(connection, user, password, database: string): TDbConn {.
     result = db
   else:
     dbError(db)
-   
+
+proc setEncoding*(connection: TDbConn, encoding: string): bool {.
+  tags: [FDb].} =
+  ## sets the encoding of a database connection, returns true for 
+  ## success, false for failure.
+  ##
+  ## Note that the encoding cannot be changed once it's been set.
+  ## According to SQLite3 documentation, any attempt to change 
+  ## the encoding after the database is created will be silently 
+  ## ignored.
+  exec(connection, sql"PRAGMA encoding = ?", [encoding])
+  result = connection.getValue(sql"PRAGMA encoding") == encoding
+
 when isMainModule:
   var db = open("db.sql", "", "", "")
   exec(db, sql"create table tbl1(one varchar(10), two smallint)", [])