update readme for encoding changes

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Brian Lopez 2010-06-13 16:28:53 -07:00
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@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ The Mysql2 gem is meant to serve the extremely common use-case of connecting, qu
Some database libraries out there serve as direct 1:1 mappings of the already complex C API's available.
This one is not.
It also forces the use of UTF-8 [or binary] for the connection [and all strings in 1.9] and uses encoding-aware MySQL API calls where it can.
It also forces the use of UTF-8 [or binary] for the connection [and all strings in 1.9, unless Encoding.default_internal is set then it'll convert from UTF-8 to that encoding] and uses encoding-aware MySQL API calls where it can.
The API consists of two clases: