'charset' in connection url not work on some server

[Yuan Yao]

I passed charset on connection url which works on almost all mysql except for one particular mysql server. I used pymysql as my connector. mysql version is 5.6

[Mike Bayer]

hello -

"charset" is a pymysql argument which is specific to how you are connecting. There's no version-based filtering performed on these so just don't pass the argument to your very old mysql server. thanks!