On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 1:50 PM, Gabriel . <gabriel....@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I have this method defined in a model:
>
> def __repr__(self):
> return ugettext_lazy("%(file)s (Component: %(component)s -
> Release: %(release)s)") % {
> 'file': self.filename,
> 'component': self.component.name,
> 'release': self.release.name,}
>
> (I tried also with ugettext)
>
> I'm getting an UnicodeEncodeError when I call this method and the
> language is Portuguese (the translated version is: "%(file)s
> (componente: %(component)s - versão: %(release)s)"). The 'ã' is
> causing problems here, but only here, I'm using the same string in a
> view and it works ok.
>
> My question is, why is it failing only in the repr method?
>
>
repr needs to return a string, you are returning unicode. The automatic
unicode-to-string conversion done by Python will use the ascii codec, which
has no way of representing 'ã'. You should probably be returning the repr of
the unicode value. That won't result in something easily read (as the
non-ASCII values will appear escaped) but it is safest. Alternatively you
can explicitly encode the unicode value using a codec (e.g. utf8) that can
represent any characters that may appear in it, but you may then run into
other problems down the line with things using the repr value and not
knowing what its encoding is.
Karen
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