Point taken, three times. On May 24, 9:40 am, Karen Tracey <kmtra...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 8:27 AM, Scott Gould <zinck...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > My database and all of its tables are UTF8 encoded with UTF8 collation > > > (DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8;) > > > The data I am inputting is unicode > > > (u'Save up to 25% on your online order of select HP LaserJet\x92s') > > > <type 'unicode'> > > > > But when I try to save this data I get an error > > > Incorrect string value: '\\xC2\\x92s' for column 'title' at row 1 > > > > I assume I am missing something, but not sure what I am missing. > > > Your string is a unicode string (u'...') but you have UTF-8 encoded > > text inside it. > > No, that is just the way Python displays unicode repr. The value shown is a > valid unicode string with a character \x92 in it. This is encoded to utf-8 > as \xC2\x92 for storage in the database, and the database is reporting an > error with that uf8 encoded value, likely because the table actually has a > non-utf8 charset that has no mapping for unicode u+0092. > > > Unicode is not UTF-8; UTF-8 is a way to represent > > unicode in ASCII. You should be able to fix it by either casting that > > string to str(), > > Casting to str() would raise a UnicodeEncodeError, because the unicode > character \x92 cannot be encoded in ASCII: > > >>> u > u'LaserJet\x92' > >>> type(u) > <type 'unicode'> > >>> str(u) > > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "<console>", line 1, in <module> > UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\x92' in position > 8: ordinal not in range(128) > > > or by having "real" unicode inside it (difficult to > > say which is better without knowing how you're obtaining that string > > to begin with). > > It is real unicode as it is, though rather odd (it's a "private use" > character). > > Karen > --http://tracey.org/kmt/ > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Django users" group. > To post to this group, send email to django-us...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group > athttp://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en.
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