SQlite none english char

[Gandalf]

On Jun 8, 11:00 am, Gerhard Häring <g... at ghaering.de> wrote:
> Gandalf wrote:
> > I works with python 2.5 on windows,  And I use sqlite3
>
> > Now, I have problem searching string in Hebrew in my database
>
> > I have table called "test" with field num and test
> > firs row i insert  "1" and "עברית"  (that is "Hebrew" in Hebrew)
> > second row i insert "2" and "English" [...]
>
> I recommend you use Unicode strings for all your Python strings in the
> application. You can then be that things will just work with the sqlite3
> module.
>
> The problem is that the sqlite3 module doesn't currently check if what
> you insert into the database is in UTF-8 encoding. But if it isn't,
> you're likely to run into problems later on.
>
> So, let's assume that you've written your Python using a UTF-8 editor,
> you can then use something like:
>
> # coding: utf-8
>
> as the first line in the script. Among others, this will allow you to
> write Unicode literals in UTF-8, i. e. do something like:
>
> data = u"עברית".
>
> then you can insert this into the database:
>
> cur.execute("insert into test(test) values (?)", (data,))
>
> Note that I use the parametrized form of execute() with ? as
> placeholders. *Always* use this when the SQL statement is not constant,
> but has parameters of some sort.
>
> > [...]
> > cur.execute("select *  from `test` where text like '%"+i+"%'  ")
> > for row in cur:
> >     print row[1]
>
> > but this one print me nothing
> > instead of עברית
>
> This could be two problems. Either (likely) it simply isn't found
> because you inserted garbage (non-UTF-8 data) or you got a decoding
> error to UTF-8 executing the select, which the sqlite3 module will
> currently unfortunately ignore and return a None value instead.
>
> Again, use the parametrized form of the execute() statement with Unicode
> Python strings to avoid any problems.
>
> cur.execute("select * from test where text like '%' || ? || '%'",
> (searchstr,))
>
> !!! Ok, I just found out that you used the + operator in SQL to
> concatenate strings. Don't, as it will not work (except on maybe MySQL).
> Use the || operator instead!
>
> Note that when you use cur.execute(sql, params), then params is actually
> a tuple of parameters. In the above examples there was only one
> parameter, so it was a one-tuple, which is written as (element,).
> Dont'write it as (element), because Python will not recognize it as a
> tuple then.
>
> Don't hesitate to ask if you need further help.
>
> -- Gerhard

I solved the problem by entering data manually but now the problem is
that i had to delete this function:
con.text_factory = str
and now I can't see the data that I entered thought my sqlite manager