This is a recurring problem for django users obviously by the amount of posts returned by google and I've had this problem in the past as well, but cannot remember how I got around it. Googling did'nt help either.
When I use Norweian characters like ØÆÅ in CharField-field in the django admin I get an exception when I click the add-button to register the new entry. Traceback: File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\django\core\handlers\base.py" in get_response 136. response = response.render()File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\django\template\response.py" in render 104. self._set_content(self.rendered_content)File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\django\template\response.py" in rendered_content 81. content = template.render(context)File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\django\template\base.py" in render 140. return self._render(context)File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\django\template\base.py" in _render 134. return self.nodelist.render(context)File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\django\template\base.py" in render 823. bit = self.render_node(node, context)File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\django\template\debug.py" in render_node 74. return node.render(context)File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\django\template\loader_tags.py" in render 123. return compiled_parent._render(context)File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\django\template\base.py" in _render 134. return self.nodelist.render(context)File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\django\template\base.py" in render 823. bit = self.render_node(node, context)File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\django\template\debug.py" in render_node 74. return node.render(context)File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\django\template\loader_tags.py" in render 123. return compiled_parent._render(context)File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\django\template\base.py" in _render 134. return self.nodelist.render(context)File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\django\template\base.py" in render 823. bit = self.render_node(node, context)File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\django\template\debug.py" in render_node 74. return node.render(context)File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\django\template\loader_tags.py" in render 123. return compiled_parent._render(context)File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\django\template\base.py" in _render 134. return self.nodelist.render(context)File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\django\template\base.py" in render 823. bit = self.render_node(node, context)File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\django\template\debug.py" in render_node 74. return node.render(context)File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\django\template\defaulttags.py" in render 281. return nodelist.render(context)File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\django\template\base.py" in render 823. bit = self.render_node(node, context)File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\django\template\debug.py" in render_node 74. return node.render(context)File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\django\template\loader_tags.py" in render 62. result = block.nodelist.render(context)File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\django\template\base.py" in render 823. bit = self.render_node(node, context)File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\django\template\debug.py" in render_node 74. return node.render(context)File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\django\template\defaulttags.py" in render 281. return nodelist.render(context)File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\django\template\base.py" in render 823. bit = self.render_node(node, context)File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\django\template\debug.py" in render_node 74. return node.render(context)File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\django\template\debug.py" in render 84. output = self.filter_expression.resolve(context)File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\django\template\base.py" in resolve 599. new_obj = func(obj, *arg_vals)File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\django\template\defaultfilters.py" in _dec 39. args[0] = force_unicode(args[0])File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\django\utils\encoding.py" in force_unicode 74. s = unicode(str(s), encoding, errors) Exception Type: UnicodeEncodeError at /admin/storyquest/story/11/Exception Value: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xd8' in position 0: ordinal not in range(128) I'm running Python 2.7.3, django 1.4.3 on Windows 8 64bit. The model in question: class Story(models.Model): title = models.CharField(max_length=200) Regards, Thomas -- 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 django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.