title: pyodbc remove unicode strings
body: <p>I'm using pyodbc to connect sqlserver and below is my connection string..Everything is proper but the results are returned as a unicode string..I have the CHARSET=UTF8 in the connection string but still its returning as unicode string?</p>
  
  <p>Is there any way that I can limit it using the connection paramter itself?</p>
  
  <p>I don't want to call a extra function to convert my unicode to normal strings.</p>
  
  <pre><code>import pyodbc as p
  
  connstr= 'DRIVER={SQL Server};SERVER=USERNAME\SQLEXPRESS;DATABASE=TEST;Trusted_Connection=yes;unicode_results=True;CHARSET=UTF8'
  conn = p.connect(connstr)
  print conn
  cursor = conn.cursor()
  result = cursor.execute("select * from employee1")
  for each in result:
      print each
  </code></pre>