How to decode a string

[Fredrik Lundh]

"Lad" wrote:

> The result of print "*", repr(RealName), type(RealName), "*" is
>
> * 'Fritschov\xe1 Laura' <type 'str'> *

looks like the MySQL interface is returning 8-bit strings using ISO-8859-1
encoding (or some variation of that; \xE1 is "LATIN SMALL LETTER A
WITH ACUTE" in 8859-1).

have you tried passing "use_unicode=True" to the connect() call ?

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