Hello guys & girls
I'm pasting an "en dash"
(http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/2013/index.htm) character into a
tkinter widget, expecting it to be properly stored into a MySQL database.
I'm getting this error:
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Thank you Martin and John, for you excellent explanations.
I think I understand the unicode basic principles, what confuses me is the
usage different applications make out of it.
For example, I got that EN DASH out of a web page which states at the beggining. That's why I did go for
that encod
I've got this error (see the path in last line)
db=MySQLdb.connect(host='localhost',use_unicode = True, charset =
"Windows-1251",user='root',passwd='12',db='articulos')
File "C:\Python24\Lib\site-packages\MySQLdb\__init__.py", line 74, in Connect
return Connection(*args, **kwargs)
Fil
On Thu, 17 Apr 2008 20:57:21 -0700 (PDT)
hdante <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Don't use old 8-bit encodings. Use UTF-8.
Yes, I'll try. But is a problem when I only want to read, not that I'm trying
to write or create the content.
To blame I suppose is Microsoft's commercial success. They won't a
On Thu, 17 Apr 2008 22:00:21 GMT
John Machin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The empirical evidence from other recent postings is that you are
> mucking about with Spanish-language newspaper "articulos" on the web ...
> so why charset = "Windows-1251", which is Cyrillic (i.e. Russian etc)??
> Perh
