Re: [Pypgsql-users] unicode?

[Gerhard <ger...@gm...>]

On Mon, Nov 19, 2001 at 07:26:49PM -0800, Mark McEahern wrote:
> Hi, I'm trying to insert unicode strings into PostgreSQL via PgSQL and I'm
> having a devil of a time with it.  Here's what I tried:
> 
> [...]
> 
> Q:  How come this doesn't just work?
> 
> I wish I could ask a more intelligent question than that!

It's a very intelligent question. Alas, the answer is as simple as that Unicode
support isn't implemented, yet. At least not fully.

I wasn't aware of this fact and I will work on it for the next release. Good,
now I'll have to look how much effort this really is.

Gerhard
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