From be09bb55ec97d941038b96dd811dc1f853a4c57c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Richard Marko <rmarko@fedoraproject.org>
Date: Apr 27 2016 11:17:03 +0000
Subject: pass client_encoding utf8 to create_engine


Resolves

[:error] [pid 4455] UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode
character u'\\xf6' in position 13: ordinal not in range(128)

when getting user

user = pagure.lib.search_user(SESSION, email=author.email)

---

diff --git a/pagure/lib/__init__.py b/pagure/lib/__init__.py
index c5ef2c6..e8d1891 100644
--- a/pagure/lib/__init__.py
+++ b/pagure/lib/__init__.py
@@ -84,7 +84,8 @@ def create_session(db_url, debug=False, pool_recycle=3600):
 
     '''
     engine = sqlalchemy.create_engine(
-        db_url, echo=debug, pool_recycle=pool_recycle)
+        db_url, echo=debug, pool_recycle=pool_recycle,
+        client_encoding='utf8')
     scopedsession = scoped_session(sessionmaker(bind=engine))
     model.BASE.metadata.bind = scopedsession
     return scopedsession
diff --git a/pagure/lib/model.py b/pagure/lib/model.py
index f4a0441..d905190 100644
--- a/pagure/lib/model.py
+++ b/pagure/lib/model.py
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ def create_tables(db_url, alembic_ini=None, acls=None, debug=False):
     :return a session that can be used to query the database.
 
     """
-    engine = create_engine(db_url, echo=debug)
+    engine = create_engine(db_url, echo=debug, client_encoding='utf8')
     from pagure.ui.plugins import get_plugin_tables
     get_plugin_tables()
     BASE.metadata.create_all(engine)