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: ordinal
notin range(128)
>
This looks like a python issue rather than a Postgres issue. The problem
is probably in python-simplejson.
cheers
andrew