handling unicode data

[Filipe]

Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:
> 	The setting most likely has to be made on the machine running the
> server -- and M$ SQL Server doesn't exist on Linux either <G>
>
> 	If the conversion was being done by some client library on Windows,
> then again, since that library probably doesn't exist on Linux, the
> conversion probably is not done.

yes, it's something done on the client side. And I think DB-Library
does exist on Linux because Pymssql depends on it and Pymssql is
cross-platform:

"pymssql 0.7.4 has been tested on FreeBSD 6.0, NetBSD 2.1, 3.0, Linux
with kernel 2.6, and Windows XP. It should also run on other platforms."