Hello! I got the same error when i tried to work with Cyrillic charset in Python. In my case it was pure Python problem. Here is good explanation why it happened: http://docs.python.org/howto/unicode.html and http://python.su/forum/viewtopic.php?pid=6476 (rus)
In your case, most probably django crashs when it reads nonASCII characters from DB. Wadim. On 3 мар, 08:48, Vladimir <veva...@yandex.ru> wrote: > Good morning! > In me first exercise project with Django I met an error message: > UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xe0 in position > 0: ordinal not in range(128). Admin pages are built without css. > Then I changed all .py-files entering > # -*- coding: utf-8 -*- > into the first row and recreated database: > ALTER DATABASE `djangodb` DEFAULT CHARACTER SET utf-8 COLLATE > utf8_unicode_ci > I also tryed COLLATE utf8_swedish_ci. Then I recreated tables with > manage.py syncdb. > No effect. Is this a typical problem of Django beginners? > I need only russian and english languages in my projects endeed. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en.
