I've posted the answer on StackOverflow. You have client_encoding = sql_ascii in your postgresql.conf, and you just need to change that to utf8 or override it in your create_engine call.
Cheers, Gulli On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 6:59 PM, Michael Bayer <mike...@zzzcomputing.com> wrote: > > On Jul 23, 2014, at 1:20 PM, Andrew Pashkin <andrew.pash...@gmx.co.uk> > wrote: > > Hi all! > > I have an issue with unicode and SQLAlchemy. > > I've created topic on SO: > > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/24795444/how-to-save-unicode-with-sqlalchemy > > And repository with Vagrant/Ansible setup, so you can easily reproduce > this bug on your local machine: > https://github.com/AndrewPashkin/sqlalchemy_pg_unicode_save_fail > > In short - I just get UnicodeEncodeError when trying to save one specific > Unicode symbol ('\u2013') with SQLAlchemy. > > Does anybody know how this can be handled? > > ps > The most weird thing here is that, author of this test case: > http://stackoverflow.com/a/24798089/1818608 > does not get such error, as I am. > > > do you have a stack trace? C extensions are installed or not? What OS > platform? What’s the client encoding of your PG database (it’s in > postgresql.conf). Try creating a raw psycopg2 script? > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "sqlalchemy" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to sqlalchemy+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to sqlalchemy@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sqlalchemy. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sqlalchemy" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sqlalchemy+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sqlalchemy@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sqlalchemy. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
