On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 1:03 AM, Bo Gu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > I was testing fill some chinese strings to the text field in the Django > admin page, and I got the Incorrect string value Error. I tried two models > which are defined in my app, and the strange thing is that the "for column" > fields are different in these two errors, one is 'change_message' and the > other is 'object_repr' neither is defined in my models. I defined > __unicode__ and did not define __str__ in my models. The mysql tables' > charsets are utf-8, and I did not define DEFAULT_CHARSET in my settings.py > file thus it should be utf-8 too. I can successfully save the no-ascii > strings in manage.py shell !!! > > What on earth caused this? And how could I save the non-ascii strings? >
Both columns you mention are in the django_admin_log table, used to log changes you make using the admin. Are you sure this table has charset utf-8? It sounds rather like your app's tables are utf-8 but the django admin's tables are not. Karen --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
