From d5e39446f39d02981741b3a16d66983daee8aa2f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Amjith Ramanujam <amjith.r@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2015 23:51:09 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Always use utf8 as the default encoding.

---
 pgcli/pgexecute.py | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/pgcli/pgexecute.py b/pgcli/pgexecute.py
index 535d2c5a..2b2fd63c 100644
--- a/pgcli/pgexecute.py
+++ b/pgcli/pgexecute.py
@@ -162,6 +162,7 @@ class PGExecute(object):
                 password=unicode2utf8(password),
                 host=unicode2utf8(host),
                 port=unicode2utf8(port))
+        conn.set_client_encoding('utf8')
         if hasattr(self, 'conn'):
             self.conn.close()
         self.conn = conn