On Sat, 24 Mar 2018 11:21:09 +1100, Chris Angelico wrote: >>> If I changed my database tables to all be UTF-8 would this work >>> cleanly without any decoding? >> >> Not reliably or safely. It will appear to work so long as you have only >> pure ASCII strings from the database, and then crash when you don't: [...] > If the database has been configured to use UTF-8 (as mentioned, that's > "utf8mb4" in MySQL), you won't get that byte sequence back. You'll get > back valid UTF-8.
Of course you will -- sorry I got confused. -- Steve -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
