Hey hey, just solved it, if you can patch: dal.py line 4104:
def connector(driver_args=driver_args): return rdbms.connect(charset='utf8', **driver_args) the credits goes to this post as in cloud sql documentation is never mentioned this charset parameter to the development db: https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!search/cloud$20sql$20utf8/google-cloud-sql-discuss/cmmNTT1lJ18/ZBzmsYdcdNwJ Thanks all. On Thursday, December 27, 2012 4:47:08 PM UTC-2, Felipe Meirelles wrote: > > It also fails when rendering the grid, but again, only in development > server, wich makes me think its something related to google sdk. > Is there some ideia? > > On Thursday, December 27, 2012 12:51:23 PM UTC-2, Felipe Meirelles wrote: >> >> I'm using GAE + Google Cloud SQL and when I insert some data to local >> server with special chars like in "Água" it saves the data, but when i try >> to retrieve it i get an encoding error from python. >> In production it is automaticaly encoded to \u00c1gua and saves to DB. >> Is it some mysql feature that Google Cloud SQL has as default or some >> diference in the implementation of the adapters? >> >> Thanks >> > --