The strings you get are probably UTF8. Can you confirm?
On Wednesday, 4 November 2015 08:19:41 UTC-6, Dandelion Mine wrote:
>
> Hello!
> According to Web2py book, 'by default web2py uses utf8 character encoding
> for databases'. I get the contrary results: there are fields with type
> 'string', mysql shows that they have collation utf8_general_ci, but when I
> select them with DAL, the type of returned fields are 'str', not 'unicode'.
>
> db.define_table('customers',
> Field('name', 'string'))
>
> +-----------+--------------+-----------------+------
> | Field | Type | Collation | Null | Key |
> +-----------+--------------+-----------------+------+
> | name | varchar(512) | utf8_general_ci |
>
> print type(db(db.tradera_customers).select().first().name)
> <type 'str'>
>
> I tried to remove *.table in databases and to use db_codec parameter for
> DAL, but nothing changed.
>
> Web2py version 2.9.11-stable, Python 2.7.9, MySQL ver 14.14 Distrib 5.5.40
>
> Is it a known bug or I'm doing something wrong?
> Thanks in advance.
>
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