Tests portability (#482)

* try to create a 'utf8' DB first,
if it fails create a 'SQL_ASCII' encoded

* failed linting

* add '.vscode' to '.gitignore'

* use 'template0' to create new database #482

Co-authored-by: Camill Kaipf <[email protected]>

Author: ckaipf

.gitignore

@@ -29,3 +29,4 @@ development_notb.ini
 _build*
 docs/make.bat
 docs/Makefile
+.vscode

tests/integration/__init__.py

@@ -38,7 +38,9 @@ def initDb(self):
         # create database from scratch:
         if database_exists(db_url):
             drop_database(db_url)
-        create_database(db_url)
+
+        # handling encoding error
+        create_database(db_url, template="template0", encoding="utf8")
 
         # get engine and session factory
         self.engine = get_engine(self.settings)