Re: [pysqlite] Strings coming back as Unicode.

"Harish Vishwanath" <[email protected]> Mon, 24 Nov 2008 15:34:57 +0530
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Btw, thanks for the link for that wonderful blog! :)

We are also looking at internationalization in future, so Unicode makes
sense. But since this is an embedded system, we need to change a lotta stuff
to get to Unicode. After reading your note, I now suspect, its ZODB which
cant handle Unicode. I will dig further in that direction.

Thank you!

On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 3:02 PM, Roger Binns <[email protected]> wrote:

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> Harish Vishwanath wrote:
> > strings, or it could be the XML RPC, I am not sure at this point.
>
> XML-RPC strings are Unicode, although you can try really really hard to
> subvert that.
>
> Also I failed to mention that SQLite only does strings as Unicode.
> Again you have to try quite hard to subvert that as you noticed :-)
>
> My advice would be to use Unicode everywhere and only dumb down to old
> school strings where the components don't support Unicode.  You will
> then need to do codeset conversion at that boundary and may be able to
> use UTF8 as the codeset.
>
> Roger
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Regards,
Harish

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