[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
It's an obligatory requirement for the data in the database to be stored in latin1 where I want to use TG. Think of other people/programs using data from this DB.If data was only to be used by the TG app I wouldn't have any problem using utf-8 encoding.
and why don't you simply convert the data?
a data.decode('utf8').encode('iso-8859-1') should do the trick..
(well, you will have to watch out for unrepresentable characters, and
things like that)
gabor
