On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 4:42 PM, Sam Mason <sam@samason.me.uk> wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 09:35:02PM +0200, Andreas Kalsch wrote:
>> CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION test (str text)
>> RETURNS text
>> AS $$
>> import unicodedata
>> return unicodedata.normalize('NFKD', str.decode('UTF-8'))
>> $$ LANGUAGE plpythonu;
>
> I'd guess you want that to be:
>
> return unicodedata.normalize('NFKD', str.decode('UTF-8')).encode('UTF-8');
>
> If you're converting from a utf8 encoding, you probably need to go
> back again! This could certainly be made easier though, PG knows what
> encoding its strings are stored in, why doesn't it work with unicode
> strings by default?
Isn't it python that's making the mistake here, not pg?
