"Lad" wrote: > The result of print "*", repr(RealName), type(RealName), "*" is > > * 'Fritschov\xe1 Laura' <type 'str'> *
looks like the MySQL interface is returning 8-bit strings using ISO-8859-1 encoding (or some variation of that; \xE1 is "LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH ACUTE" in 8859-1). have you tried passing "use_unicode=True" to the connect() call ? </F> -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
