'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xf3'

[Diez B. Roggisch]

> So what do you need to solve your problem at hand? You need to know which
> encoding the sql driver wants for transmitting strings - most probably
> utf-8, so they can encode all possible characters. And thus you have to
> encode tthe strings you pass beforehand, or set the default encoding
> properly.

Just saw that setting the encoding doesn't work - sorry for suggesting it.
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Regards,

Diez B. Roggisch