On 11/1/06, mamcxyz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> I having this error:
>
> OperationalError: (1267, "Illegal mix of collations
> (latin1_general_ci,IMPLICIT) and (utf8_general_ci,COERCIBLE) for
> operation '='")
>
> When I try to run code like this:
>
> City.objects.filter(name='Medellín')
>
> I have a working site where I need to perform a data upgrade, and is
> common have this kind of city names (is a site for Colombia, in
> spanish)
>
> Never before get this problem...
>
> I use MySql 4.
>
>
> I try to do
> City.objects.filter(name='Medellín'.encode/decode('latin_1'))
>
> with not look.
>
> I search on Google and found this is a reported problem with Django but
> not understand what to do...I assume your database is in latin1. Django tries to force utf8 if your server version is at least 4.1. Are you using 4.0 or 4.1? Try: City.objects.filter(name=u'Medellín') This ultimately passes a unicode object to MySQLdb which should encode it into the connection's character set encoding, which I guess will be latin1. BTW, what version of MySQLdb are you using? -- This message has been scanned for memes and dangerous content by MindScanner, and is believed to be unclean. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
