Encoding in Django admin

问题

In my model I have a field defined like this:

name = models.CharField(max_length=50)

Then in admin panel if I try to insert a record with the name that contains characters like 'č', 'š', 'ž', I get the UnicodeEncodeError.

'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\u017e' in position 3: ordinal not in range(128)

What is this? Why doesn't django use utf-8 for everything?

回答1:

Django uses utf-8 for everything. I suppose that the error might be in the __unicode__() method of your model.

You should always use the u' prefix for all text data. So if you write something like this:

def __unicode__(self):
    return 'Model: %s' % self.name

then you need to change it to:

def __unicode__(self):
    return u'Model: %s' % self.name

来源：https://stackoverflow.com/questions/29431108/encoding-in-django-admin