Problems saving Japanese characters to mysql via python-mysqldb
<p>I tried following the instructions here in my python script running on Ubuntu:</p>

<p><a href="http://www.dasprids.de/blog/2007/12/17/python-mysqldb-and-utf-8" rel="nofollow">http://www.dasprids.de/blog/2007/12/17/python-mysqldb-and-utf-8</a></p>

<p>But I can't seem to save japanese characters properly. They keep appearing as '?!?!?!' in the database. I can, however, save japanese characters from the mysql command line prompt itself, so the problem definitely seems to lie with python and mysqldb side of things. </p>

<p>I used this :
c.execute("insert into testing (test) values (%s)",(var_containing_japchars))</p>

<p>Does anyone know what the problem is ? </p>
