I have the string
u"Played Mirror's Edge\u2122"
Which should be shown as
Played Mirror's Edge™
But that is another issue. My problem at hand is that I'm putting it in a model and then trying to save it to a database. AKA:
a = models.Achievement(name=u"Played Mirror's Edge\u2122")
a.save()
And I'm getting :
'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\u2122' in position 13: ordinal not in range(128)
full stack trace (as requested) :
Traceback:
File "/var/home/ptarjan/django/mysite/django/core/handlers/base.py" in get_response
86. response = callback(request, *callback_args, **callback_kwargs)
File "/var/home/ptarjan/django/mysite/yourock/views/alias.py" in import_all
161. types.import_all(type, alias)
File "/var/home/ptarjan/django/mysite/yourock/types/types.py" in import_all
52. return modules[type].import_all(siteAlias, alias)
File "/var/home/ptarjan/django/mysite/yourock/types/xbox.py" in import_all
117. achiever = self.add_achievement(dict, siteAlias, alias)
File "/var/home/ptarjan/django/mysite/yourock/types/base_profile.py" in add_achievement
130. owner = siteAlias,
File "/var/home/ptarjan/django/mysite/django/db/models/query.py" in get
304. num = len(clone)
File "/var/home/ptarjan/django/mysite/django/db/models/query.py" in __len__
160. self._result_cache = list(self.iterator())
File "/var/home/ptarjan/django/mysite/django/db/models/query.py" in iterator
275. for row in self.query.results_iter():
File "/var/home/ptarjan/django/mysite/django/db/models/sql/query.py" in results_iter
206. for rows in self.execute_sql(MULTI):
File "/var/home/ptarjan/django/mysite/django/db/models/sql/query.py" in execute_sql
1734. cursor.execute(sql, params)
File "/var/home/ptarjan/django/mysite/django/db/backends/util.py" in execute
19. return self.cursor.execute(sql, params)
File "/var/home/ptarjan/django/mysite/django/db/backends/mysql/base.py" in execute
83. return self.cursor.execute(query, args)
File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.5/MySQLdb/cursors.py" in execute
151. query = query % db.literal(args)
File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.5/MySQLdb/connections.py" in literal
247. return self.escape(o, self.encoders)
File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.5/MySQLdb/connections.py" in string_literal
180. return db.string_literal(obj)
Exception Type: UnicodeEncodeError at /import/xbox:bob
Exception Value: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\u2122' in position 13: ordinal not in range(128)
And the pertinant part of the model :
class Achievement(MyBaseModel):
name = models.CharField(max_length=100, help_text="A human readable achievement name")
I'm using a MySQL backend with this in my settings.py
DEFAULT_CHARSET = 'utf-8'
So basically, how the heck should I deal with all this unicode stuff? I was hoping it would all "just work" if I stayed away from funny character sets and stuck to UTF8. Alas, it seems to not be just that easy.