On 1 Set, 18:48, Malcolm Tredinnick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-09-01 at 08:37 -0700, PaoloCortiwrote:
> > Hi all
>
> > I am a beginner using Django from the trunk and Postgres 8.2
>
> > I have this issue with utf8, you can replicate it this way (it is
> > something similiar to this with MySql i guess:
> >http://groups.google.com/group/django-users/browse_frm/thread/d7dd214...)
>
> > 1) create a postgres db like this:
>
> > CREATE DATABASE test2
> > WITH ENCODING='UTF8'
> > OWNER=test;
>
> > 2) create a django project
>
> > django-admin.py startproject testutf
>
> > 3) configure the settings.py file for the database access and enable
> > the admin application
>
> > 4) create a test application
>
> > python manage.py startapp apptestutf
>
> > 5) create this simple model
>
> > from django.db import models
>
> > class Person(models.Model):
> > name = models.CharField('name', max_length=100)
>
> > def __str__(self):
> > return '%s' % self.name
>
> So as soon as you see UnicodeDecodeError, you should immediately think
> "where am I passing a unicode object to something that can only handle
> bytestrings." The __str__ method is certainly one of those cases.
>
> Best to follow the Django documentation here and write a __unicode__
> method for your model (not a __str__ method). Refer to the first two
> sections here (or the /unicode documentation) for
> details:http://www.djangoproject.com/documentation/model-api/#str
>
> And, yes, those sections are arguably backwards, since it explains
> __str__ and then effectively says "don't bother doing that" in a
> confusing fashion. That will be fixed at some point.
>
> Regards,
> Malcolm
Thanks Malcolm
it makes sense and is working now
Paolo
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