Latin1_General_CI_AS must a configuration parameter of your database. web2py only works with utf8
On Sunday, 3 December 2017 23:26:00 UTC-6, Tim Richardson wrote: > > I have a unicode string retrieved via a query from a different database on > the same Windows Server (MS SQL 2008) . > It is a name with an accent. At the time I process it, it is an > intermediate variable with type unicode. > > When I try to save it to an nvarchar column, I get an error > > > File "C:\Users\tim\web2py_dev\gluon\packages\dal\pydal\adapters\base.py", > line 523, in update > raise e > UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position 137: > ordinal not in range(128) > > this is python 2.7 on Window Server 2008. > I get the error both on web2py 2.16.1 which checked-out DAL v17.11, > and in 2.14.6 with DAL v16.03 > > I'm using mssql3. Apart from the connection string, I am only using > lazy_tables > > The database collation is Latin1_General_CI_AS > The database column was varchar up until me encountering this problem; now > it is nvarchar. > > I don't understand this at all. Where is "ascii" coming from? Is there > some lingering table migration which is confusing the DAL? > > > > > -- Resources: - http://web2py.com - http://web2py.com/book (Documentation) - http://github.com/web2py/web2py (Source code) - https://code.google.com/p/web2py/issues/list (Report Issues) --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to web2py+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
