Re: Encoding troubles

2010-05-17 Thread Bryan
Neil Hodgson wrote: > JB: > > > as hypens (–) and apostrophes (’) are in an odd encoding. When passed > > to the database using sqlalchemy they appear as – and other > > characters. > >    The encoding is UTF-8. Normally the best way to handle encodings is > to convert to Unicode strings (unicode

Re: Encoding troubles

2010-05-17 Thread Neil Hodgson
JB: > as hypens (–) and apostrophes (’) are in an odd encoding. When passed > to the database using sqlalchemy they appear as – and other > characters. The encoding is UTF-8. Normally the best way to handle encodings is to convert to Unicode strings (unicode(s, "UTF-8")) as soon as possible