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 and perform most processing in Unicode. Neil -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
