UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character

Question

When uploading files with non-ASCII characters I get UnicodeEncodeError:

Exception Type: UnicodeEncodeError at /admin/studio/newsitem/add/
Exception Value: \         


        

Answer 1

If you're using django and python 2.7 this fixes it for me:

@python_2_unicode_compatible
class Utente(models.Model):

see https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/utils/#django.utils.encoding.python_2_unicode_compatible