Can you attach a traceback for that? Sent from my iPhone
On Sep 29, 2011, at 7:45 AM, Benjamin Sims <benjamins...@gmail.com> wrote: > I've recently moved from SQLite to MySQL as the underlying database for my > application. The move is causing me various problems, principally around > Unicode. I *think* they were not occurring when SQLite was there, so I > thought I would ask if anybody on the list has had similar problems. > > My current difficultly is that when saving content (Chinese, generally) to > the database, I get the dreaded: > > *** UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode characters in position > 0-4: ordinal not in range(128) > > error and a rollback. > > I have checked that: > > - the MySQL table has a suitable encoding (CHARACTER SET utf8 COLLATE > utf8_general_ci;) > - the MySQL connection string has the charset on the end (?charset=utf8) > - The type for the relevant Column is Unicode (this worked previously with > just string, but I have changed it anyway just in case) > - The content is unicode at the point it gets sent to the the database > (again, this was a plain string previously but seemed to work) > > However, on save I get the above error from SQLAlchemy. What do I need to be > doing to get the content in the right format to send through? > > Thanks, > Ben > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "sqlalchemy" group. > To post to this group, send email to sqlalchemy@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > sqlalchemy+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/sqlalchemy?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sqlalchemy" group. To post to this group, send email to sqlalchemy@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sqlalchemy+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sqlalchemy?hl=en.
