Alex Le Dain wrote: > I am interested in why was this was done, because I cannot see it from > my perspective. Is there a deeper rationale here?
My apologies, I went to the source and have nutted it out. It appears that the MySQLdb layer requires unicode for versions > 1.2.1. In upgrading SQLObject I also upgraded the MySQLdb layer and hence the problem sprang into being! Still don't understand why encoding etc enough to understand what's required at my end to allow characters 128..255 into a StringCol(). If someone could point this out that would be great. > Secondly, I am progressing towards migrating to 0.9.x as fast as I can. > Does the same check exist in 0.9.x? I am guessing it would :-) cheers, Alex. -- Alexander C. Le Dain, PhD Software Engineer ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ sqlobject-discuss mailing list sqlobject-discuss@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sqlobject-discuss