Sort of solved this issue myself; my solution was using Django 1.5c and Python 3.3.
Allthough this means some of the reusable apps I was planning on using isn't ready for Python 3 I'll look into forking them and try to see if I can get them running myself. And if so send a patch to the maintainers. First up; Django debug toolbar :-) Thomas On Monday, January 28, 2013 10:07:22 PM UTC+1, Thomas Weholt wrote: > > This is a recurring problem for django users obviously by the amount of > posts returned by google and I've had this problem in the past as well, but > cannot remember how I got around it. Googling did'nt help either. > > When I use Norweian characters like ØÆÅ in CharField-field in the django > admin I get an exception when I click the add-button to register the new > entry. > > Traceback: > File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\django\core\handlers\base.py" in > get_response 136. response = response.render()File > "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\django\template\response.py" in render > 104. self._set_content(self.rendered_content)File > "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\django\template\response.py" in > rendered_content 81. content = template.render(context)File > "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\django\template\base.py" in render 140. > return self._render(context)File > "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\django\template\base.py" in _render 134. > return self.nodelist.render(context)File > "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\django\template\base.py" in render 823. > bit = self.render_node(node, context)File > "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\django\template\debug.py" in render_node > 74. return node.render(context)File > "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\django\template\loader_tags.py" in render > 123. return compiled_parent._render(context)File > "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\django\template\base.py" in _render 134. > return self.nodelist.render(context)File > "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\django\template\base.py" in render 823. > bit = self.render_node(node, context)File > "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\django\template\debug.py" in render_node > 74. return node.render(context)File > "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\django\template\loader_tags.py" in render > 123. return compiled_parent._render(context)File > "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\django\template\base.py" in _render 134. > return self.nodelist.render(context)File > "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\django\template\base.py" in render 823. > bit = self.render_node(node, context)File > "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\django\template\debug.py" in render_node > 74. return node.render(context)File > "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\django\template\loader_tags.py" in render > 123. return compiled_parent._render(context)File > "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\django\template\base.py" in _render 134. > return self.nodelist.render(context)File > "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\django\template\base.py" in render 823. > bit = self.render_node(node, context)File > "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\django\template\debug.py" in render_node > 74. return node.render(context)File > "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\django\template\defaulttags.py" in render > 281. return nodelist.render(context)File > "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\django\template\base.py" in render 823. > bit = self.render_node(node, context)File > "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\django\template\debug.py" in render_node > 74. return node.render(context)File > "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\django\template\loader_tags.py" in render > 62. result = block.nodelist.render(context)File > "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\django\template\base.py" in render 823. > bit = self.render_node(node, context)File > "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\django\template\debug.py" in render_node > 74. return node.render(context)File > "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\django\template\defaulttags.py" in render > 281. return nodelist.render(context)File > "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\django\template\base.py" in render 823. > bit = self.render_node(node, context)File > "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\django\template\debug.py" in render_node > 74. return node.render(context)File > "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\django\template\debug.py" in render 84. > output = self.filter_expression.resolve(context)File > "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\django\template\base.py" in resolve 599. > new_obj = func(obj, *arg_vals)File > "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\django\template\defaultfilters.py" in _dec > 39. args[0] = force_unicode(args[0])File > "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\django\utils\encoding.py" in force_unicode > 74. s = unicode(str(s), encoding, errors) > Exception Type: UnicodeEncodeError at /admin/storyquest/story/11/Exception > Value: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xd8' in position 0: ordinal > not in range(128) > > I'm running Python 2.7.3, django 1.4.3 on Windows 8 64bit. The model in > question: > > class Story(models.Model): > title = models.CharField(max_length=200) > > > Regards, > Thomas > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.