Andrew Dunstan wrote:
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>
> Alvaro Herrera wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I was having a look at this snippet:
>> http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Google_Translate
>> and it turns out that it doesn't work if the result contains non-ASCII
>> chars. Does anybody know how to fix it?
>>
>> alvherre=# select gtranslate('en', 'es', 'he');
>> ERROR: plpython: function "gtranslate" could not create return value
>> DETALLE: <type 'exceptions.UnicodeEncodeError'>: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xe9' in position 0:
ordinalnot in range(128)
>
> This looks like a python issue rather than a Postgres issue. The problem
> is probably in python-simplejson.
I think the problem happens when the PL tries to create the output
value. Otherwise I wouldn't be able to see the value in plpy.log.
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