UnicodeDecodeError

[andreasnuesslein]

I'm trying to write a django-pyodbc-informix driver.

I have the following problem:
ipdb> self.cursor.execute("SELECT DBINFO('sqlca.sqlerrd1') FROM SYSTABLES")
*** UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xbb in position 1: invalid start byte

Also:
cursor.execute("SELECT FIRST 1 'x' FROM SYSTABLES")
UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xd5 in position 1: invalid continuation byte

But:
ipdb> self.cursor.execute('SELECT FIRST 1 * FROM SYSTABLES')
<pyodbc.Cursor object at 0x7fb3a973bdb0>

So apparently the ' is giving problems. =(

any help would be greatly appreciated

[andreasnuesslein]

Oh and when I execute the same statement using python2.7, it works like a charm.

[andreasnuesslein]

I've pinpointed the problem:
name seems to include invalid unicode-sequences @
https://github.com/mkleehammer/pyodbc/blob/master/src/cursor.cpp#L321
and @
https://github.com/mkleehammer/pyodbc/blob/master/src/cursor.cpp#L342

once i removed/replaced those two occurances, it worked. \o/ obviously it'd be better to fix the name. :)