Arghh, that last bit should be chr(146), not ord(146)
On 4/10/07, Rick Morrison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> You've got hi-bit characters in your data. MSSQL with pymssql will store
> this, but not understand it.
>
> You most likely are looking for a "normal" ASCII apostrophe (i.e. ord(39))
> instead of the hi-bit version you've got.
>
> to get it, try ${str}.replace(ord(146), "'") <-- that last bit is a
> single quote (apostrophe) surrounded by double-quotes
>
> Rick
>
>
> On 4/10/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> >
> > Hello all -
> > Unfortunately, we have a ms sql server at work. When I get tuples
> > from the server they look like this:
> >
> > .. (55, 26, 'Small Business and Individual Chapter 11s - The NewCode
> > \x92s Effect on Strategies', 'AUDIO'...
> >
> > with \x92 for apostrophe etc. I've tried putting every encoding in
> > the create_engine statement, including ISO-8859-1 used by MS SQL, but
> > the print statements always come out like:
> >
> > .. The NewCode?s Effect on ..
> >
> > I also tried passing the string to unicode(string, 'ISO-8859-1'), but
> > this gives me:
> >
> > .. UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\x96' in
> > position 48: ordinal not in range(128) ..
> >
> > Does anyone know about MSSQL or this encoding, or how to get
> > apostrophes where \x92 is?
> > Any help would be greatly appreciated.
> >
> > -Steve
> >
> >
> > > >
> >
>
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