# enkoding.py - show to change client enkoding (and test it works) # -*- encoding: utf8 -*- # # Copyright (C) 2004 Federico Di Gregorio # # This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify # it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the # Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) any later # version. # # This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but # WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTIBILITY # or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License # for more details. ## put in DSN your DSN string DSN = 'dbname=test' ## don't modify anything below this line (except for experimenting) import sys import psycopg2 import psycopg2.extensions if len(sys.argv) > 1: DSN = sys.argv[1] print "Opening connection using dns:", DSN conn = psycopg2.connect(DSN) print "Initial encoding for this connection is", conn.encoding print "\n** This example is supposed to be run in a UNICODE terminal! **\n" print "Available encodings:" encs = psycopg2.extensions.encodings.items() encs.sort() for a, b in encs: print " ", a, "<->", b print "Using STRING typecaster" print "Setting backend encoding to LATIN1 and executing queries:" conn.set_client_encoding('LATIN1') curs = conn.cursor() curs.execute("SELECT %s::TEXT AS foo", ('àèìòù',)) x = curs.fetchone()[0] print " ->", unicode(x, 'latin-1').encode('utf-8'), type(x) curs.execute("SELECT %s::TEXT AS foo", (u'àèìòù',)) x = curs.fetchone()[0] print " ->", unicode(x, 'latin-1').encode('utf-8'), type(x) print "Setting backend encoding to UTF8 and executing queries:" conn.set_client_encoding('UNICODE') curs = conn.cursor() curs.execute("SELECT %s::TEXT AS foo", (u'àèìòù'.encode('utf-8'),)) x = curs.fetchone()[0] print " ->", x, type(x) curs.execute("SELECT %s::TEXT AS foo", (u'àèìòù',)) x = curs.fetchone()[0] print " ->", x, type(x) print "Using UNICODE typecaster" psycopg2.extensions.register_type(psycopg2.extensions.UNICODE) print "Setting backend encoding to LATIN1 and executing queries:" conn.set_client_encoding('LATIN1') curs = conn.cursor() curs.execute("SELECT %s::TEXT AS foo", ('àèìòù',)) x = curs.fetchone()[0] print " ->", x.encode('utf-8'), ":", type(x) curs.execute("SELECT %s::TEXT AS foo", (u'àèìòù',)) x = curs.fetchone()[0] print " ->", x.encode('utf-8'), ":", type(x) print "Setting backend encoding to UTF8 and executing queries:" conn.set_client_encoding('UNICODE') curs = conn.cursor() curs.execute("SELECT %s::TEXT AS foo", (u'àèìòù'.encode('utf-8'),)) x = curs.fetchone()[0] print " ->", x.encode('utf-8'), ":", type(x) curs.execute("SELECT %s::TEXT AS foo", (u'àèìòù',)) x = curs.fetchone()[0] print " ->", x.encode('utf-8'), ":", type(x) print "Executing full UNICODE queries" print "Setting backend encoding to LATIN1 and executing queries:" conn.set_client_encoding('LATIN1') curs = conn.cursor() curs.execute(u"SELECT %s::TEXT AS foo", ('àèìòù',)) x = curs.fetchone()[0] print " ->", x.encode('utf-8'), ":", type(x) curs.execute(u"SELECT %s::TEXT AS foo", (u'àèìòù',)) x = curs.fetchone()[0] print " ->", x.encode('utf-8'), ":", type(x) print "Setting backend encoding to UTF8 and executing queries:" conn.set_client_encoding('UNICODE') curs = conn.cursor() curs.execute(u"SELECT %s::TEXT AS foo", (u'àèìòù'.encode('utf-8'),)) x = curs.fetchone()[0] print " ->", x.encode('utf-8'), ":", type(x) curs.execute(u"SELECT %s::TEXT AS foo", (u'àèìòù',)) x = curs.fetchone()[0] print " ->", x.encode('utf-8'), ":", type(x)