Description of problem: pyodbc in Fedora 17/18 is missing important fixes for Unicode handling: http://code.google.com/p/pyodbc/wiki/ReleaseNotes 2.1.8 - 2010-09-06 A major release for Mac OS/X, Unicode, and 64-bit issues, plus a few suggestions. Thanks for the reports and suggestions. Unicode handling has been completely reworked, fixing a number of issues on platforms where the size of a SQLWCHAR did not match the size of a Python Unicode character. This includes Mac OS/X and most 64-bit Linux distributions. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): pyodbc-2.1.5-7.fc18.x86_64 freetds-0.91-3.fc17.x86_64 unixODBC-2.3.1-1.fc17.x86_64 See also http://code.google.com/p/pyodbc/issues/detail?id=78&can=1&q=UTF-16 How reproducible: always Steps to Reproduce: 1. connect to SQL Server using pyodbc / freetds, TDS Version 7.1 2. fetch some values Actual results: (u'\U00630045\U006e006f\U006c0065', ) Expected results: (u'Econel', ) Additional info: Solved in pyodbc-3.0.6-1.fc19.x86_64 (rawhide). That s the version I produced the "Expected results" output with. The release notes indicate that an update to 2.1.8 would suffice to fix this issue.
I notice that pyodbc 3.0.6 has been in rawhide for since August... When will it come to the main distro?
(In reply to comment #1) > I notice that pyodbc 3.0.6 has been in rawhide for since August... When will > it come to the main distro? I'm not planning to do so, but I'm going to update to 2.1.11 in stable releases, because of fixes you described and others.
pyodbc-2.1.11-1.fc18 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 18. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/pyodbc-2.1.11-1.fc18
pyodbc-2.1.11-1.fc17 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 17. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/pyodbc-2.1.11-1.fc17
pyodbc-2.1.11-1.fc16 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 16. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/pyodbc-2.1.11-1.fc16
Package pyodbc-2.1.11-1.fc16: * should fix your issue, * was pushed to the Fedora 16 testing repository, * should be available at your local mirror within two days. Update it with: # su -c 'yum update --enablerepo=updates-testing pyodbc-2.1.11-1.fc16' as soon as you are able to. Please go to the following url: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2012-17395/pyodbc-2.1.11-1.fc16 then log in and leave karma (feedback).