From 70215a95a1f2ce7e2051139369a5239723a18cc6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Miroslav Stampar <miroslav.stampar@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2014 13:02:47 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Patch for an Issue #847

---
 lib/core/common.py | 7 ++-----
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lib/core/common.py b/lib/core/common.py
index 44806295d..9b8f21045 100755
--- a/lib/core/common.py
+++ b/lib/core/common.py
@@ -2809,14 +2809,11 @@ def decodeIntToUnicode(value):
 
     if isinstance(value, int):
         try:
-            # http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/string-functions.html#function_ord
-            if Backend.getIdentifiedDbms() in (DBMS.MYSQL,):
+            if value > 255:
                 _ = "%x" % value
                 if len(_) % 2 == 1:
                     _ = "0%s" % _
-                retVal = getUnicode(hexdecode(_))
-            elif value > 255:
-                retVal = unichr(value)
+                retVal = getUnicode(hexdecode(_), encoding="UTF-16" if Backend.isDbms(DBMS.MSSQL) else None)
             else:
                 retVal = getUnicode(chr(value))
         except: