Encoding troubles

[Neil Hodgson]

JB:

> as hypens (–) and apostrophes (’) are in an odd encoding. When passed
> to the database using sqlalchemy they appear as – and other
> characters.

   The encoding is UTF-8. Normally the best way to handle encodings is
to convert to Unicode strings (unicode(s, "UTF-8")) as soon as possible
and perform most processing in Unicode.

   Neil