I have the exactly same problem here. Can anyone look into it? thanks alot.
Stef have you found a solution? On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 5:47 PM, Stef Mientki <stef.mien...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I'm trying to insert a record with a filed value > u"ëLocatie" > > and I get an error in sql.Table._insert at the last line: > return 'INSERT INTO %s(%s) VALUES (%s);' % (sql_t, sql_f, sql_v) > > here the traceback > File "D:\Data_Python_25\support\Web2Py_DAL_support.py", line 250, in > DAL_Table > Description = Value[3][:-1]) > File "P:\Web2PY\web2py_src\web2py\gluon\sql.py", line 2035, in insert > query = self._insert(**fields) > File "P:\Web2PY\web2py_src\web2py\gluon\sql.py", line 2028, in _insert > return 'INSERT INTO %s(%s) VALUES (%s);' % (sql_t, sql_f, sql_v) > UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position 35: > ordinal not in range(128) > > I don't understand the problem and know what I'm doing wrong > > Wwith print statements I tried to narrow the problem, and in : > def sql_represent(obj, fieldtype, dbname, db_codec='UTF-8'): > > there's is this part > if isinstance(obj, unicode): > print '????', type(obj),obj > if len(obj)>0 : print ord(obj[0]) > obj = obj.encode(db_codec) > print '????', type(obj) > if len(obj)>0 : print ord(obj[0]) > > which seems to convert the unicode to a string with byte values larger than > 128. > > Am I doing something wrong, or is this a bug ? > And of course far more interesting, how do I solve this problem ? > > thanks, > Stef Mientki > > >
