On Sat, Apr 13, 2013 at 6:37 AM, mln sastry <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hi Anshum, > Thank you for responding. > I defined a Book model as shown below and tried to save it from the admin > shell. > I am using python2.7.3 , django1.5, and python mysql driver 1.2.3. > I am not sure if my model data type is wrong or if any qualifier is > missing. Please help. > > I got this error:Warning: Incorrect string value: > '\xE0\xA4\xB6\xE0\xA5\x8D...' for column 'bookName' at row 1" > > class Book(models.Model): > > bookId = models.AutoField(primary_key=True) > > bookName = models.TextField(max_length=200,null=False,) > > bookShortName = models.CharField(max_length=10,null=True,) > > isDeleted = models.NullBooleanField (null=True,) > > > > gita4 = Book(bookName= > "श्रीमद्भगवद्गीता",bookShortName="गीता",isDeleted=False)
This is not specifying a unicode string, it is specifying a byte string. A unicode string starts u"Some text". Django correctly handles unicode text, but if it is given byte strings, what happens depends upon your environment - mostly, it will just not work. There is an excellent document describing python 2.x and it's unicode handling: http://docs.python.org/2/howto/unicode.html however, the only things you really need to do: 1) Specify unicode strings as unicode by prefixing with u, eg u"श्रीमद्भगवद्गीता" 2) Any python file that you include non-ascii characters in must specify the encoding the file is in, by adding a special comment to either the first or second line in the file: # -*- coding: utf-8 -*- Cheers Tom -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
