> Should I be using UnicodeCol() instead of StringCol()? > > And I'm not certain I understand the SQLObject docs on the matter. If I > understand correctly, SQLObject will then handle encoding and decoding > the data going in and out of the database properly, but it is still my > responsibility to see that parameters to queries are utf-8 encoded. Is > that right? Is there more I need to do to handle utf-8 correctly? I changed StringCol to UnicodeCol and it works fine. I also specified my iso8859-2 encoding in the templates/python scripts ( # -*- coding: iso8859-2 -*-. and <?xml ...)
Everything looks ok. I must use unicode in python when working with SqlObject static python text and templates use iso and are converted to UTF8. Thx for all the info. -- Lazy

