entering different encoding to django model

Question

Hello, django newbie here,

I'm trying to insert a foreign language characters into a django model, and get this warning: *Incorrect string value: '\xD7\x90\xD7\x9E\xD7\xAA...' for column 'first_name' at row 1*

What should I do to solve this?

Answer 1

Try to insert the unicode value of the string, such as:

>>> a="\xD7\x90\xD7\x9E\xD7\xAA"
>>> a.decode('utf8')
u'\u05d0\u05de\u05ea'

Answer 2

Django uses Unicode. Just use unicode literals.

u'\xD7\x90\xD7\x9E\xD7\xAA...'