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How to set the encoding for strings being sent/returned by devart ASE ODBC driver

eg from python, I send this unicode string
u'Update Prost_Consent set ConsentRefused_ActionedBy = \\'∆h\\' where PatientID = 417

but whats get stored in ASE are hex bytes
06 68
rather than the ∆h bytes stream I sent in which was
E2 88 86 68

Is the driver set up for 8 bit ascii? How do I tell it some other encoded string is coming in?

hello,

You need to turn on the UseUnicode option on the Advanced Settings tab

I am on a Mac.

What setting in the ODBC.ini file or other configuration fe does this set?

You need to add the UseUnicode=True string in the ODBC.ini file in the DSN setting section for our driver

I found that the answer was with python. I needed to set the string to UTF8 before sending to pyodbc

cursor.execute(theSQL.encode("utf-8"))

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