id summary reporter owner description type status priority component severity resolution keywords cc release 4030 better solution for ensuring utf-8 consistancy with bodepd@… Anton Stroganov "I am no db expert, but I found that I had to change the following to get unicode characters to display and be entered correctly: {{{ mysql_con = MySQLdb.connect(host=_host, user=_user, passwd=_password, db=_db, compress=1, cursorclass=MySQLdb.cursors.DictCursor, use_unicode=1) }}} use_unicode=1 is the same as set names=""utf-8"", this ensures that the database data is retrieved in this format. I prob had to do this as a misconfiguration on our DB where everything is set to latin, even thougn german characters are used. " defect closed normal MantisImportScript normal fixed UTF-8 mysql unicode use_unicode 0.10