Use utf8 charset by default

cosmingrz · cosmingrz · commit 9fbe9f3aa0be · 2022-07-19T11:03:15.000+03:00
diff --git a/MySQLdb/connections.py b/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 = "latin1"
+            charset = "utf8"
         self.set_character_set(charset)
 
         if sql_mode:
diff --git a/metadata.cfg b/metadata.cfg
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 [metadata]
-version: 1.4.0.2
+version: 1.4.0.3
 version_info: (1,4,0,'final',0)
 description: Python interface to MySQL
 author: Inada Naoki
