Well, I have a solution to my own problem, and I wanted to post it for two
reasons: First, it might help someone; second, I'm wondering if someone can
explain it to me...
Here's the scoop...
I'm on a Windows machine. It turns out that the default code page on
Windows is cp437. So, in my
Folks:
Thanks so much for your replies. I have absorbed a lot of information about
code pages and unicode in the last couple of days. My understanding is far
from complete, but I'm ahead of where I was...
In the end, my best answer was to set the text_factory property of the
connection object
