theisi opened a new issue, #1499: URL: https://github.com/apache/age/issues/1499
**Describe the bug** A unicode character (code point >128) in a cypher query raises the exception SqlExecutionError: InvalidEscapeSequence. **How are you accessing AGE (Command line, driver, etc.)?** Python driver **What is the command that caused the error?** ```python3 import age ag = age.connect('test_graph', host="/var/run/postgresql", user="postgres") ag.execCypher("CREATE (n:Test {name: %s})", params=('abcö',)) ``` **Expected behavior** Write the unicode string to the database. **Environment (please complete the following information):** - Release 1.4.0 for PG 14 **Additional context** AGE [expects](https://age.apache.org/age-manual/master/intro/types.html) strings encoded with Unicode UTF-16 code points in the form of \uXXXX. However, cursor.mogrify() in age.py returns UTF-8 encoded byte strings. A simple decode, encode sequence can solve the problem for low code points: ```python3 cypher = ( cursor.mogrify(cypherStmt, params) .decode('utf-8') .encode('unicode-escape') .decode('utf-8') .replace('\\x', '\\u00') ) ``` instead of ```python3 cypher = str(cursor.mogrify(cypherStmt, params)) cypher = cypher[2:len(cypher)-1] ``` -- This is an automated message from the Apache Git Service. To respond to the message, please log on to GitHub and use the URL above to go to the specific comment. To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@age.apache.org.apache.org For queries about this service, please contact Infrastructure at: us...@infra.apache.org