Support UTF-8 in Google BigQuery results (original) (raw)

Given that the entire Google BigQuery API returns UTF-8, it would make sense to handle UTF-8 output from BigQuery in the gbq.read_gbq IO module.

I'd love to do a pull request but I'm not sure the preferred way of handling this. I'd assume that this line should be changed to field_value = field_value.decode('utf-8'). I made that change and tests passed but figuring out how to properly test UTF-8 encoding is giving me some trouble (keeps making my test addition fail).