Hi.
I'm relatively new to python so please be gentle :)
I'm trying to write a £ symbol to an MS SQL server using pymsssql . This
works but when selecting the data back (e.g. using SQL management
studio) the £ symbol is replaced with £ (latin capital letter A with
circumflex).
This is a bit of a non-answer but... use pyodbc[*],
use NVARCHAR cols, and use unicode values on insert:
<code>
import pyodbc
import unicodedata
db = pyodbc.connect (r"Driver={SQL Server};Server=SVR17;Database=TDI;TrustedConnectio n=Yes")
db.execute ("CREATE TABLE b (x NVARCHAR (1))")
db.execute ("INSERT INTO b (x) VALUES (?)", ['£'])
db.execute ("INSERT INTO b (x) VALUES (?)", [u'£'])
db.execute ("COMMIT")
for x, in db.execute ("SELECT x FROM b"):
print repr (x), unicodedata.name (x[0])
</code>
[*] Don't know if it's strictly necessary, but I gave up
on pymssql a while back when it had issues with unicode and
was using the ntwdblib which is more-and-more unsupported.
TJG
