Store names as UTF-8

The names should be always in UTF-8 encoding. At least for PostgreSQL
the encdoding of the database comes from the time of running 'initdb'
(which is different from 'createdb') and if the encoding was selected or
set to something else at that time, the following error will occur:

  File ".../pyfpdb/Database.py", line 1630, in <lambda>
    self.pcache = LambdaDict(lambda  key:self.insertPlayer(key, siteid))
  File ".../pyfpdb/Database.py", line 1661, in insertPlayer
    c.execute (q, (site_id, _name))
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/encodings/iso8859_15.py", line 12, in encode
    return codecs.charmap_encode(input,errors,encoding_table)
UnicodeEncodeError: 'charmap' codec can't encode character u'\u2122' in
position 10: character maps to <undefined>

This happens because 'name' is a regular string as opposed to a valid
unicode object. By forcing the string to unicode and encoding it in
UTF-8 the error goes away. In my case the database encoding was
ISO-8859-15 (latin9) but any other "wrong" encoding would trigger the
same problem.

This is a relatively common problem in python.
This commit is contained in:
Mika Bostrom 2009-12-24 09:52:47 +02:00
parent 17aae75f01
commit 3b1e67e78b

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@ -38,6 +38,7 @@ from decimal import Decimal
import string
import re
import Queue
import codecs
# pyGTK modules
@ -50,6 +51,7 @@ import Tourney
from Exceptions import *
log = Configuration.get_logger("logging.conf")
encoder = codecs.lookup('utf-8')
class Database:
@ -1641,6 +1643,7 @@ class Database:
def insertPlayer(self, name, site_id):
result = None
(_name, _len) = encoder.encode(unicode(name))
c = self.get_cursor()
q = "SELECT name, id FROM Players WHERE siteid=%s and name=%s"
q = q.replace('%s', self.sql.query['placeholder'])
@ -1654,12 +1657,12 @@ class Database:
#print "DEBUG: name: %s site: %s" %(name, site_id)
c.execute (q, (site_id, name))
c.execute (q, (site_id, _name))
tmp = c.fetchone()
if (tmp == None): #new player
c.execute ("INSERT INTO Players (name, siteId) VALUES (%s, %s)".replace('%s',self.sql.query['placeholder'])
,(name, site_id))
,(_name, site_id))
#Get last id might be faster here.
#c.execute ("SELECT id FROM Players WHERE name=%s", (name,))
result = self.get_last_insert_id(c)