[pysqlite] [APSW] Reading non-UTF8 data?

Hello

Apparently, I'm getting an error when trying to read data through a 
SELECT that is encoded in ISO-8859-1 while Python expects UTF8:

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sql = 'SELECT code,label FROM mytable'
rows=list(cursor.execute(sql))
#UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf8' codec can't decode bytes in position 
12-14: invalid d
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Is there a way to tell APSW to use a different code page to read data?

Thank you.