From e745c73dea600f567b50cb52ce7b40c29d752d48 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_mysql.nim | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/db_mysql.nim b/src/db_mysql.nim
index dab84c2d50..b8180cd875 100644
--- a/src/db_mysql.nim
+++ b/src/db_mysql.nim
@@ -229,3 +229,9 @@ proc open*(connection, user, password, database: string): TDbConn {.
     var errmsg = $mysql.error(result)
     db_mysql.close(result)
     dbError(errmsg)
+
+proc setEncoding*(connection: TDbConn, encoding: string): bool {.
+  tags: [FDb].} =
+  ## sets the encoding of a database connection, returns true for 
+  ## success, false for failure.
+  result = mysql.set_character_set(connection, encoding) == 0
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