Encoding error with sqlalchemy and postgresql

Question

I\'m using pyramid for a web application with a postgres database, wtforms, sqlalchemy and jinja2 and I\'m having this error when the application try to get the issues types fro

Answer 1

You need to configure Psycopg2's client encoding. See the SQLAlchemy documentation:

By default, the psycopg2 driver uses the psycopg2.extensions.UNICODE extension, such that the DBAPI receives and returns all strings as Python Unicode objects directly - SQLAlchemy passes these values through without change. Psycopg2 here will encode/decode string values based on the current “client encoding” setting; by default this is the value in the postgresql.conf file, which often defaults to SQL_ASCII. Typically, this can be changed to utf-8, as a more useful default:

#client_encoding = sql_ascii # actually, defaults to database
                             # encoding
client_encoding = utf8

A second way to affect the client encoding is to set it within Psycopg2 locally. SQLAlchemy will call psycopg2’s set_client_encoding() method (see: http://initd.org/psycopg/docs/connection.html#connection.set_client_encoding) on all new connections based on the value passed to create_engine() using the client_encoding parameter:

engine = create_engine("postgresql://user:pass@host/dbname", client_encoding='utf8')

This overrides the encoding specified in the Postgresql client configuration.

The client_encoding parameter can be specified as a query string in the engine URL:

 postgresql://user:pass@host/dbname?client_encoding=utf8