Bruno, Alan, thanks for replies! Actually I hoped that web2py have built-in methods to converting all input to Unicode strings (since this is tendency for all applications).
Do web2py guaranties, that input string always converted to UTF-8 from client browser encoding? I'm not sure. But if it is then I think Bruno's solution is most applicable with only note that input value can be not correct UTF-8 string, so it should be checked or ignored, like so: > unicode(value, 'utf-8', 'ignore') -- Vladimir Rutsky
