test?charset=utf8")
Whether or not the DBAPI handles the job of encoding and decoding is determined
-by passing the ``use_unicode`` parameter. For example, to disable
-unicode conversion by the DBAPI and let SQLAlchemy handle it::
+by passing the ``use_unicode`` parameter, supported by MySQLdb and PyMySQL
+and possibly others.
+For example, to disable unicode conversion by the DBAPI and let
+SQLAlchemy handle it::
e = create_engine("mysql+pymysql://scott:tiger@localhost/\
test?charset=utf8&use_uncode=0")
Unicode
-------
+The ``use_unicode=0`` flag is **not** supported in MySQL-Connector at this
+time, nor is the ``utf8mb4`` charset.
+
Please see :ref:`mysql_unicode` for background on enabling charset support
with mysql-connector.
Unicode
-------
+The ``use_unicode=0`` flag is **not** supported in OurSQL,
+nor is the ``utf8mb4`` charset.
+
oursql defaults to using ``utf8`` as the connection charset, but other
encodings may be used instead. Like the MySQL-Python driver, unicode support
can be completely disabled::