unicode

2 files changed, 9 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index b3985f18..5c07fa75 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -23,6 +23,14 @@ mkdir -p /data_store_hdd/apps/megapixels/faiss/indexes
 mkdir -p /data_store_hdd/apps/megapixels/faiss/metadata
 ```
 
+### MySQL note
+
+You may need to set the database charset to `utf8mb4` in order to import the CSVs:
+
+```
+ALTER DATABASE megapixels CHARACTER SET = utf8mb4 COLLATE = utf8mb4_unicode_ci;
+```
+
 ## Building the site
 
 ```
diff --git a/megapixels/app/server/api.py b/megapixels/app/server/api.py
index b3447eb1..024c32cb 100644
--- a/megapixels/app/server/api.py
+++ b/megapixels/app/server/api.py
@@ -108,7 +108,7 @@ def upload(name):
       dists.append(round(float(_d), 2))
       ids.append(_i+1)
 
-  results = [ dataset.get_identity(_i) for _i in ids ]
+  results = [ dataset.get_identity(int(_i)) for _i in ids ]
 
   print(distances)
   print(ids)