[web2py] Re: DAL returns string fields not as unicode strings

ierro wrote: > > The strings you get are probably UTF8. Can you confirm? > > On Wednesday, 4 November 2015 08:19:41 UTC-6, Dandelion Mine wrote: >> >> Hello! >> According to Web2py book, 'by default web2py uses utf8 character encoding >> for databases'. I get the con

[web2py] DAL returns string fields not as unicode strings

Hello! According to Web2py book, 'by default web2py uses utf8 character encoding for databases'. I get the contrary results: there are fields with type 'string', mysql shows that they have collation utf8_general_ci, but when I select them with DAL, the type of returned fields are 'str', not