we�re also using UTF-8 (with umlauts and special characters) and we don�t have any problems. do you use the right content-type? <meta http-equiv="Content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
btw, that question should go to "django-users". patrick Am 25.02.2007 um 11:59 schrieb Emil Ahlb�ck: > > Hello everyone. > > Recently me and a friend revived an old project, in hope that Django > will offer us a non-clusterf***y way to work, and it did. It's great, > I love it. :) > > I have run into a problem though, after using google a bit for finding > information in the documentation I decided to turn here. > > OK, so what I am doing now is to let the user register and give us his > real name there. Names like Friedrich or so are fine, but when there > are non-ANSI (correct term?) characters we're running into problems. > My name for example is Emil Ahlb�ck, and what it does when I enter it > is to cut the name at "Ahlb" and just enter that part. Both my > database and all my tables are set to have utf8_unicode_ci collation, > which should be enough I hope? Displaying UTF-8 characters are no > problems, I already tried manipulating the record manually. > > So, how should I accomplish this? I also tried using the u'' stuff, as > in user_object.last_name = self.clean_data[u'last_name'], but this > didn't change anything. > > Thanks in advance, Emil. > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django developers" group. To post to this group, send email to django-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-developers?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
