Hi,
The strings you are saving into database may need to be encoded to
UTF-8 first, e.g: "A string".encode('utf-8')
Julien
On May 7, 5:21 pm, oliver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> as an extra note, all Tables and Fields involved in this are set to
> Utf8 / unicode.
>
> On 7 May, 08:19, oliver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
>
> > I am building a fairly large website but I have come a cross one very
> > odd error.
> > We build a simple email record model that has a custom def save()
> > function which when called creates a new Record and fires of the
> > email(s).
> > Now this all works fine till I get a non English PC using this (the
> > error below is from our very basic contact form!)
>
> > Exception Type: UnicodeEncodeError at /contact-opal-students/
> > Exception Value: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xb4' in
> > position 88: ordinal not in range(128)
>
> > For some reason when we try to put the email context into the db field
> > the errors out as it trys to ASCII a unicode field.
>
> > I already had a lengthy chat with people in IRC who tried to help but
> > we couldn't find what was wrong.
>
> > This happens on our live server (debian, apache-mod python 2.4, mysql)
> > and on our development machines (windows, python 2.5, django
> > devserver, mysql 5)
>
> > To reproduce it I have to change a virtual machine to some foreign
> > language settings and enter some "odd" chars like ' ` ...
>
> > I can "fix" the issue by switching to Postgrsql which seems to not
> > have this problem (tried it and it works fine, but I would need to
> > change some code in other places, so I would prefer to find out what
> > this error is about)?
>
> > Google has only a few hits on this with out much use.
>
> > Thanks
> > ---
>
> > (the whole error is on dpaste.com as wellhttp://dpaste.com/48646/
> > with code)
> > Traceback:
>
> > Environment:
>
> > Traceback:
> > File "c:\python25\lib\site-packages\django\core\handlers\base.py" in
> > get_response
> > 82. response = callback(request, *callback_args,
> > **callback_kwargs)
> > File "C:\PROJECTS\OpalStudents\cms\views.py" in ContactUs
> > 60. an_email.save(object)
> > File "C:\PROJECTS\OpalStudents\EmailSystem\models.py" in save
> > 101. super(EmailRecord, self).save()
> > File "c:\python25\lib\site-packages\django\db\models\base.py" in save
> > 272. self.save_base()
> > File "c:\python25\lib\site-packages\django\db\models\base.py" in
> > save_base
> > 329. result = manager._insert(values,
> > return_id=update_pk)
> > File "c:\python25\lib\site-packages\django\db\models\manager.py" in
> > _insert
> > 127. return insert_query(self.model, values, **kwargs)
> > File "c:\python25\lib\site-packages\django\db\models\query.py" in
> > insert_query
> > 729. return query.execute_sql(return_id)
> > File "c:\python25\lib\site-packages\django\db\models\sql
> > \subqueries.py" in execute_sql
> > 300. cursor = super(InsertQuery, self).execute_sql(None)
> > File "c:\python25\lib\site-packages\django\db\models\sql\query.py" in
> > execute_sql
> > 1466. cursor.execute(sql, params)
> > File "c:\python25\lib\site-packages\django\db\backends\util.py" in
> > execute
> > 18. return self.cursor.execute(sql, params)
> > File "c:\python25\lib\site-packages\MySQLdb\cursors.py" in execute
> > 151. query = query % db.literal(args)
> > File "c:\python25\lib\site-packages\MySQLdb\connections.py" in literal
> > 247. return self.escape(o, self.encoders)
> > File "c:\python25\lib\site-packages\MySQLdb\connections.py" in
> > string_literal
> > 180. return db.string_literal(obj)
>
> > Exception Type: UnicodeEncodeError at /contact-opal-students/
> > Exception Value: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xb4' in
> > position 88: ordinal not in range(128)
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