2010/8/17 adam <adus...@gmail.com> > When I connect directly to mysql using the mysql client program, I see > that my table contains utf-8 data. Here are the environment settings: > > mysql> SHOW VARIABLES LIKE '%character%'; > [snip] > > However, when I access my model through the django shell, I have > problems: > > In [4]: video = models.Video.objects.get(video_id='i265mCSdlsEl') > In [5]: video.title > Out[5]: '\xd1\x80\xd1\x83\xd1\x81\xd1\x81\xd0\xba\xd0\xb8\xd0\xb9 > \xd1\x8f\xd0\xb7\xd1\x8b\xd0\xba' > In [6]: video.title == u'русский язык' > manage.py:1: UnicodeWarning: Unicode equal comparison failed to > convert both arguments to Unicode - interpreting them as being unequal > # Universal Subtitles, universalsubtitles.org > Out[6]: False > In [7]: str = u'русский язык' > In [8]: str > Out[8]: u'\xd1\x80\xd1\x83\xd1\x81\xd1\x81\xd0\xba\xd0\xb8\xd0\xb9 > \xd1\x8f\xd0\xb7\xd1\x8b\xd0\xba' > > I'm hoping that there is some obvious solution to this, since we're at > our wits' end. Any suggestions would be of great use. > > This looks like a collation issue, not a character set issue. You seem to be getting bytestrings returned from the database instead of unicode. The only way I know to have that happen is to set the collation for the table/column to a binary one. See:
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