I use .96, UTF-8.
I couldn't update a user instance with strings containing unicode
special characters in my views but it worked with the admin interface.
Some of you may encounter this problem, so here is the solution...
I got this error :
UnicodeEncodeError at /profile/xxx/edit/
'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xe8' in position 6: ordinal
not in range(128)
The fix is to encode your unicode clean_data with utf8 inside your
views when you update your model:
edit_user.first_name = form.clean_data['first_name'].encode('utf8')
The reason is because the edit_user instance contains non unicode data
>>> edit_user.username
'admin'
>>> form.clean_data['first_name']
u'J\xe9rome'
>>> form.clean_data['first_name'].encode('utf8')
'J\xc3\xa9rome'
The error is triggered here because u'\xe9' cannot be encoded in
ascii :
'UPDATE "auth_user" SET "username"=%s,"first_name"=%s ..."' %
('admin', u'J\xe9rome' ... )
When you encode() correctly your clean_data values, the query is doing
fine
'UPDATE "auth_user" SET "username"=%s,"first_name"=%s ..."' %
('admin', 'J\xc3\xa9rome'... )
The problem doesn't show up with unicode strings containing [a-z]
strings because the default ascii encode function can handle the
characters.
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