There is this mysql database I'm trying to connect to. DataMapper fetches everything nicely in UTF-8 but Sequel always returns strings in ASCII-8bit which produces errors with .to_json.
I have tried several things in order to get it to work.
Encoding.default_external = Encoding::UTF_8
Encoding.default_internal = Encoding::UTF_8
DB.run 'set names utf8'
Sequel.mysql 'db', (...), :encoding => 'utf-8'
I have gems: mysql (2.9.0) (tried without), mysql2 (0.3.11) and sequel (3.42.0)
The only thing that works is manually forcing the encoding on every string which is MUCH less than ideal.