You store unicode by passing it encoded.
On Jun 1, 4:01 am, Phyo Arkar <phyo.arkarl...@gmail.com> wrote: > So the value has to be Endcoded From Unicode into UTF8 before > inserting? i am sure keys are str. > > We cannot store Unicode values ? > > On 5/31/11, Massimo Di Pierro <massimo.dipie...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > > > > I am not sure there is a problem here. I cannot help without seeing an > > example of the data you insert. > > > If you do: > > > db.table.insert(**a) > > > a must be a dictionary with str key and str (ut8 encoded) values. You > > cannot have unicode field names. > > > Massimo > > > On May 31, 2:40 am, Phyo Arkar <phyo.arkarl...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> 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
