Karen, Thank you very much. Our collation is set to utf8_bin, which was the source of the problem. Adam
On Aug 17, 9:01 pm, Karen Tracey <kmtra...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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: > > http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/databases/#collation-settings > > Karen > --http://tracey.org/kmt/ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-us...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en.