Thanks for your interest! My database is formatted Latin-1, you can
format the page sqlForm with this set of characters?
Sorry for my English is bad ..!
1000 Thanks Lorena

On 16 Dic, 06:15, mdipierro <[email protected]> wrote:
> This is not supposed to be a problem because web2py only passes utf8
> encoded data to the database, which means that, even if the database
> does not know it is utf8, it is just a string with regular characters.
> The database does not need to know which encoding is used and long one
> uses it consistently.
>
> This is not to say that may not be a bug. The email from Lorena seem
> to indicate that there may be a bug. I need to learn more to
> understand what is causing this.
>
> If you feel I am wrong about collations could you provide an example
> that breaks the current system?
>
> Massimo
>
> On Dec 15, 8:22 pm, achipa <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > In european languages "Ã..." is usually a sign you have utf8
> > characters in latin 8bit fields.
>
> > Massimo, I can see that for MySQL you do other=' ENGINE=InnoDB
> > CHARACTER SET utf8;' but I fail to see a similar statement for MSSQL
> > or other databases. How do you make sure they create tables in utf8 ?
>
> > Also, what is perhaps missing is the collation. Character sets are
> > cool, but if you want to use the DAL with 'orderby' on a non-english
> > (>128 ascii actually) language table, you're in trouble without
> > collations.
>
> > On Dec 15, 8:27 pm, mdipierro <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > > Can you be more explicit? How are you inserting the character and
> > > getting it out?
>
> > > Massimo
>
> > > On Dec 15, 9:37 am, Lorena <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > > > Hello, I have a problem with accented characters like "à". Using
> > > > SQLform in my mssql table shows the character "Ã". Can anyone help me?
> > > > Thanks Lorena 1000
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