Fredrik Lundh wrote: > "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>
Frederik, Thank you for your reply. I found out that if I do not decode the string at all, it looks correct. But I do not know why it is ok without decoding. I use Django and I do not use use_unicode=True" to the connect() call. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
