You could try encoding the data in your view - something like:
try:
cleandata = rawinput.encode("iso-8859-1", "ignore") or 'Unknown data
type'
except:
# Whatever you want here
pass
Just an option. Also depends on what you need to capture and return to
users. I too deal with odd encodings.
On Nov 15, 2:04 pm, Joel Hooks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> My users are cutting and pasting descriptions from Word, and this
> causes HTTP 500 errors with Django AMF (but not Django more broadly.)
> This textbox that I am typing in here on groups.google.com won't allow
> me to paste the offending characters at all. Is there a way to force
> the textbox in the Django admin change form to be whatever kind of box
> this is as to disallow users from breaking the system with bad
> characters? Alternatively, can I strip the bad characters somehow when
> they hit save?
>
> Best regards,
>
> Joel
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