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

Using python 2.7.8 and Django 1.7, I solved my problem by importing:

from __future__ import unicode_literals

and using force_text():

from django.utils.encoding import force_text