Merge pull request #3 from SpamExperts/change_default_charset

MMA-6999. Change default charset to keep our changes minimal

Author: bitsikas

MySQLdb/connections.py

@@ -202,7 +202,7 @@ def unicode_literal(u, dummy=None):
             return db.string_literal(u.encode(db.encoding))
 
         if not charset:
-            charset = self.character_set_name()
+            charset = "latin1"
         self.set_character_set(charset)
 
         if sql_mode:

metadata.cfg

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 [metadata]
-version: 1.4.0.1
+version: 1.4.0.2
 version_info: (1,4,0,'final',0)
 description: Python interface to MySQL
 author: Inada Naoki