As far as breakpoints go, realize that you can only use them from the development server ("python manage.py runserver"), and that pdb shows up in the terminal where you ran that command, and it must still be showing.
But since the data isn't in the expected format in the database, the particular breakpoints I was talking about before aren't relevant. Instead, in a terminal, cd'ed to your project directory (directory containing settings.py and manage.py), and fixing my guess at the name of the module containing Retsept, and using a query field lookup that will get you one of these objects instead of my "id__exact=1", type: python manage.py shell from retsepts.models import Retsept rs = Retsept.objects.get(id__exact=1) repr(rs.about) Does the last command print a unicode string (u before the opening quote) or a byte string with those '\x' excapes in it? If unicode, then something is broken in the render code and will require further nasty debugging. If, on the other hand, you get a byte string, then the problem is in the HTMLField code, which I could believe depends on behavior that has chaned in 1.2 (tiny not being a core product) and a work around could be to subclass the field, making it decode the UTF-8 into unicode, something like: class MyHTMLField(tinymce_models.HTMLField): def to_python(self, value): v = super(MyHTMLField, self).to_python(value) return v.decode('utf8') By the way, what database are you using, and how is it configured to store strings? Bill On Sat, May 1, 2010 at 3:21 PM, zayatzz <alan.kesselm...@gmail.com> wrote: > Well i put this if and following import & trace to several places, but > all i got was the 500 error and pdb prompt did not show up. > > If you could provide me with exact info of where to put this trace in > djang 1.2. beta 1 admin_list.py... then it would be really nice :P > > Alan > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Django users" group. > To post to this group, send email to django-us...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-us...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en.