2019-09-02 Fred Gleason <fredg@paravelsystems.com>

* Fixed a bug in the 'pypad' module that caused the DB connection
	to be opened in 'latin1' mode.

apis/pypad/api/pypad.py

@@ -797,7 +797,9 @@ class Receiver(object):
 
     def __openDb(self):
         creds=self.__getDbCredentials()
-        return MySQLdb.connect(creds[2],creds[0],creds[1],creds[3])
+        return MySQLdb.connect(user=creds[0],password=creds[1],
+                               host=creds[2],database=creds[3],
+                               charset='utf8mb4')
 
     def setPadCallback(self,callback):
         """