On Mon, Feb 12, 2018 at 9:41 AM, Nikhil kumar <nikhilkumar...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I am using pyodbc driver and the OS is RHEL 7.4. Although in my case
> changing FreeTDS client charset to UTF-8 helps me read the unicode character
> now.
> Although I am still not able to insert the unicode characters.
>
>>> engine.execute("update abc.xyz set value=N'Test comment –' where id=1")
> I see this getting inserted as "Test comment â??".
>
> Any leads here will be helpful.

use a bound parameter with a real type:

from sqlalchemy import text, bindparam, Unicode

engine.execute(
   text("update abc.xyz set value=:comment where id=1").bindparams(
        bindparam('comment', value='Test comment –', type_=Unicode)
  )
)



>
> Thanks
>
>
> On Thursday, 1 February 2018 19:32:33 UTC+5:30, Mike Bayer wrote:
>>
>> This has to do with the driver also.  What driver and OS are you using?
>> FreeTDS has to be configured in the conf settings.
>>
>> On Feb 1, 2018 12:50 AM, "Nikhil kumar" <nikhilk...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>> I am using a unicode character in my python string i.e. \u2013. When I
>>> try to insert this into mssql I see this character getting inserted as â??
>>> I have a similar problem when I read back a stored unicode character i.e.
>>> '—' which I inserted via SQL server management studio.
>>> I see the character being read as \x13.
>>>
>>> The hexadecimal representation of the character is \xe2\80\x93.
>>>
>>> SQL server - MS SQL 2014, version - 12.0
>>>
>>> I tried with datatype of column as varchar and nvarchar both. I also
>>> tried passing encoding as 'utf8' while creating engine, and passing charset
>>> as 'utf8' in engine url.
>>>
>>> Let me know if I am missing anything ?
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>>
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