title: How do I get a µ character out of sqlite and onto a web-page?
body: <p>On a Python driven web app using a sqlite datastore I had this error:</p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>Could not decode to UTF-8 column
    'name' with text '300µL-10-10'</p>
  </blockquote>
  
  <p>Reading <a href="http://docs.python.org/library/sqlite3.html#connection-objects" rel="nofollow noreferrer">here</a> it looks like I need to switch my text-factory to str and get bytestrings but when I do this my html output looks like this:</p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>300�L-10-10</p>
  </blockquote>
  
  <p>I do have my content-type set as:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /&gt;
  </code></pre>