Hello,
Johnny Blonde wrote:
> SELECT RDB$CHARACTER_SET_NAME FROM RDB$DATABASE
> told me <null> as character-set
> and the vendor couldn´t tell me anything else.
>
> if i specify a characterset within the dsn i alays run into this bunch
> of errors.
It is because kinterbasdb can't convert data from something unknown to
charset you specified.
It is fault of database creators - they should specify charset when
database was created.
> if i don´t and try it with the object method
> (someString.encode('utf-8')) i get an error as well.
>
> the only way to do it is like
> print unicode(someLegacyString, 'iso-8859-1')
You could wrote custom translator for plain kinterbasdb:
http://kinterbasdb.sourceforge.net/dist_docs/usage.html#adv_param_conv_dynamic_type_translation
But I'm unsure if it is possible with SQLObject yet.
--
Oleg
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