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Python 2

What we get from the LDAP:

sn = 'Budzy\xc5\x84ski'

What we pass to the database to be saved:

>>> unicode(sn, 'utf-8')
    u'Budzy\u0144ski'

The contents saved in the MySQL database (table uses UTF-8 encoding):

Budzyński

Python 3

What we get from the LDAP:

sn = b'Budzy\xc5\x84ski'

What we pass to the database to be saved:

>>> sn.decode('utf-8')
    'Budzyński'

The contents saved in the MySQL database (table uses UTF-8 encoding):

Budzy?ski