Move the 2.6 reST doc tree in place.

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+import sqlite3
+
+con = sqlite3.connect(":memory:")
+cur = con.cursor()
+
+# Create the table
+con.execute("create table person(lastname, firstname)")
+
+AUSTRIA = u"\xd6sterreich"
+
+# by default, rows are returned as Unicode
+cur.execute("select ?", (AUSTRIA,))
+row = cur.fetchone()
+assert row[0] == AUSTRIA
+
+# but we can make pysqlite always return bytestrings ...
+con.text_factory = str
+cur.execute("select ?", (AUSTRIA,))
+row = cur.fetchone()
+assert type(row[0]) == str
+# the bytestrings will be encoded in UTF-8, unless you stored garbage in the
+# database ...
+assert row[0] == AUSTRIA.encode("utf-8")
+
+# we can also implement a custom text_factory ...
+# here we implement one that will ignore Unicode characters that cannot be
+# decoded from UTF-8
+con.text_factory = lambda x: unicode(x, "utf-8", "ignore")
+cur.execute("select ?", ("this is latin1 and would normally create errors" + u"\xe4\xf6\xfc".encode("latin1"),))
+row = cur.fetchone()
+assert type(row[0]) == unicode
+
+# pysqlite offers a builtin optimized text_factory that will return bytestring
+# objects, if the data is in ASCII only, and otherwise return unicode objects
+con.text_factory = sqlite3.OptimizedUnicode
+cur.execute("select ?", (AUSTRIA,))
+row = cur.fetchone()
+assert type(row[0]) == unicode
+
+cur.execute("select ?", ("Germany",))
+row = cur.fetchone()
+assert type(row[0]) == str