Win32com and Unicode

[Don Tuttle]

I don't know if this is the same makepy issue but if your using  build 141
of win32all, I'd upgrade to build 142.
Don

[Mark Hammond]
I have fixed the win32com makepy problem with win32all-141.  It is available
at
http://users.bigpond.net.au/mhammond/win32all-142.exe




"Tim Roberts" <timr at probo.com> wrote in message
news:s1bf3ukg0ecda85t0rmd2c07hj3st0ci8d at 4ax.com...
> I apologize if this appears twice.  As I was writing it the first time, I
> spilled nearly a liter of iced tea into my laptop.  After a quarter
century
> of computing, you'd think I would know better.  Fortunately, disaster
seems
> to have been averted, but you can bet I now have a COMPLETE backup...
>
> I have a Postgres database on a Linux machine.  I'm accessing it from
> Python 2.2 on Windows via the ADODB interfaces.  Overall, this works very
> well.  However, I have one issue I can't resolve.
>
> One of the fields in one of my tables is a last name.  One of the last
> names has an accented character (e with acute accent).  When I attempt to
> read the contents of that field, I get an exception from the __str__
> handler in the Field class generated by the Pythonwin COM Makepy utility:
> it complains  that the conversion from Unicode failed because one of the
> characters was greater than 127.
>
> I can believe this, but I don't know how to fix it.  In Windows parlance,
> is there a way I can register a "code page" with Python so it knows how to
> convert characters beyond the lower 128?
> --
> - Tim Roberts, timr at probo.com
>   Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.