Richard Damon wrote: > Why do you say it has been convert to 'Latin'. The string prints as > being Unicode. Internally Python doesn't store strings as UTF-8, but as > plain Unicode (UCS-2 or UCS-4 as needed), and code-point E4 is the > character you want.
You're right, this wasn't the minimal example for my problem after all. Turns out that the actual issue is somewhere between SQLAlchemy and MySQL. I took a more specific questioon overt to stackoverflow.com Thanks robert -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list