[storm] problem with unicode found as string

[shawn bright]

Hey there all

i keep ending up with this same problem with storm.
Today i have another clue.

Our software needs to be case sensitive, we recently changed hardware
servers and i noticed that a Varchar table with a Unicode character
set was not
seeing the difference between 'w' and 'W'. The way i solved this on
the older server was to set the binary flag in the mysql column. As
soon as i did, i was getting storm errors everywhere about expecting
type Unicode and getting type string.

I am running MySql version 5.0.45-1ubuntu
python-mysqldb version 1.2.2-3-1ubuntu

( not sure what the 1ubuntu means, just part of the numbering system
of my preferred linux flavor, i suppose.)


please advise

shawn