Re: Entering Greek, cyrillic, or other 'weird' text

2007-10-25 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On 26-Oct-07, at 10:49 AM, Robert Bunting wrote: >> so is this a legacy database - meaning a database which had data >> before you upgraded to unicode django? In that case, we have seen in >> postgres that the old data is b0rked and needs to be reentered, >> otherwise it wont work. You need to e

Re: Entering Greek, cyrillic, or other 'weird' text

2007-10-25 Thread Robert Bunting
On Oct 24, 10:27 pm, Kenneth Gonsalves <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > so is this a legacy database - meaning a database which had data > before you upgraded to unicode django? In that case, we have seen in > postgres that the old data is b0rked and needs to be reentered, > otherwise it wont work.

Re: Entering Greek, cyrillic, or other 'weird' text

2007-10-24 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On 24-Oct-07, at 7:50 PM, bjornkri wrote: > Some data IS entered into the database - when I tried just now with a > 'content' of Greek text, I get the Incorrect string value message, but > when I go back to the admin interface the entry is there but filled > with question marks where the Greek t

Re: Entering Greek, cyrillic, or other 'weird' text

2007-10-24 Thread bjornkri
Got it! It was a core problem, so to speak... I tried dropping the database and create it again, this time with the crucial (apparently) option CHARACTER SET utf8. So, for anyone who has the same problem: CREATE DATABASE CHARACTER SET utf8; It's in the manual and everything :P Did that and tr

Re: Entering Greek, cyrillic, or other 'weird' text

2007-10-24 Thread bjornkri
I did that, but that made no difference. Even if the title field doesn't have any special characters it still crashes. Some data IS entered into the database - when I tried just now with a 'content' of Greek text, I get the Incorrect string value message, but when I go back to the admin interface

Re: Entering Greek, cyrillic, or other 'weird' text

2007-10-24 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On 24-Oct-07, at 4:42 PM, bjornkri wrote: > def __unicode__(self): > return self.title def __unicode__(self): return u"%s" % self.title<- try this -- regards kg http://lawgon.livejournal.com http://nrcfosshelpline.in/web/ --~--~-~--~~~

Re: Entering Greek, cyrillic, or other 'weird' text

2007-10-24 Thread tomris
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Re: Entering Greek, cyrillic, or other 'weird' text

2007-10-24 Thread bjornkri
Yeah, here's the model: class Page(models.Model): language = models.CharField(maxlength=2, choices=LANGUAGE_CHOICES) title = models.CharField(maxlength=60) path = models.SlugField(prepopulate_from=('language','title',)) content = models.TextField(blank=True) class Admin():

Re: Entering Greek, cyrillic, or other 'weird' text

2007-10-24 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On 24-Oct-07, at 3:37 PM, bjornkri wrote: > 0.97-pre-SVN-6603 (just updated, had the same on -6596) are you using the __unicode__(self): return u"string to return" syntax? -- regards kg http://lawgon.livejournal.com http://nrcfosshelpline.in/web/ --~

Re: Entering Greek, cyrillic, or other 'weird' text

2007-10-24 Thread bjornkri
0.97-pre-SVN-6603 (just updated, had the same on -6596) On Oct 24, 11:44 am, Kenneth Gonsalves <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 24-Oct-07, at 1:28 PM, bjornkri wrote: > > > I was sure this must be a common problem, as I've tried two different > > installations with completely different setups, and

Re: Entering Greek, cyrillic, or other 'weird' text

2007-10-24 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On 24-Oct-07, at 1:28 PM, bjornkri wrote: > I was sure this must be a common problem, as I've tried two different > installations with completely different setups, and the same results > in both cases. But looking up the error message, "Incorrect string > value", didn't give me anything what ve

Entering Greek, cyrillic, or other 'weird' text

2007-10-24 Thread bjornkri
I was sure this must be a common problem, as I've tried two different installations with completely different setups, and the same results in both cases. But looking up the error message, "Incorrect string value", didn't give me anything. So, sorry if this has been asked already, blame it on a wea