> Don't. You can't. Those characters don't exist in the ASCII character set. > SQLite 3.0 deals with UTF-8 encoded SQL statements, though.
That is not entirely correct - one can, if losing information is ok. The OPs code that normalized UTF-8 to NFKD, an umlaut like รค is transformed to a two-character-sequence basically saying "a with two dots on top". With 'ignore' specified as parameter to the encoder, this should be result in the letter a. Regards, Diez -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
