title: Get UTF8 strings from remote DB
body: <p>My application downloads some data from remote MySQL database. Problem is that db stores strings as utf8. But data I receive is ascii decoded. How to get around this ? </p>
  
  <p>The code :</p>
  
  <pre><code>cursor = conn.cursor()
  query = """MY QUERY HERE"""
  cursor.execute(query)
  result = cursor.fetchall()
  </code></pre>