- create new sqlalchemy.testing.suite.test_types, starting with Unicode round trip tests.

- clean out existing test_types:UnicodeTest to be strictly individual unit tests
against Unicode(), String(), etc. with no database access.

1 files changed, 15 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/lib/sqlalchemy/testing/requirements.py b/lib/sqlalchemy/testing/requirements.py
index bdd619bad..9681750b2 100644
--- a/lib/sqlalchemy/testing/requirements.py
+++ b/lib/sqlalchemy/testing/requirements.py
@@ -168,3 +168,18 @@ class SuiteRequirements(Requirements):
         """Target database must support VARCHAR with no length"""
 
         return exclusions.open()
+
+    @property
+    def unicode_data(self):
+        """Target database/dialect must support Python unicode objects with
+        non-ASCII characters represented, delivered as bound parameters
+        as well as in result rows.
+
+        """
+        return exclusions.open()
+
+    @property
+    def empty_strings(self):
+        """target database can persist/return an empty string."""
+
+        return exclusions.open()