Trouble with utf-8 values

[Ulrich Goebel]

Hallo,

again: a python beginner problem... but I spent ours to solve it without 
success.

I have an object (a variable) name, which gets its value from a 
PostgreSQL database via a SELECT statement, an it sometimes has german 
special characters as ß, ä, ö...

Then I would like to insert that value into a table in a SQLite 
database. So I make a cursor cur on the table and prepare a SQL 
statement like this:

sql = 'insert into tbl values(?)'
cur.execute(sql, (name,))

That ends up with the exception, for example,

UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position 6: 
ordinal not in range(128)

The "position 6" is exactly the position of the special character, ß in 
this case.

What to do?

Ulrich


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