I'm just converting to Django and man is it cool. Please accept my appreciation for a job well done and my apologies for taking your time with such beginner questions as:
I have searched the group and found excellent information about converting latin1 to utf8, but that's not my issue. I've got a brand new application. It stores ~500 1 character values to represent user selections on a massive government form. The requirements are such that there is absolutely no way it can ever need unicode. I've had some trouble in the past dealing with Python and unicode, perhaps because I'm an "old-timer" and unicode was never an issue in any of my apps before. I'm just working through the basic tutorial and I notice that the fields in a model object are unicode. I'm using Flex for my UI, which also sends unicode in it's HTTPRequest object. Other (non-python, non-unicode savvy) developers will be writing a few queries to this DB, but never editing it. I don't want them to see unicode if at all possible. Should I just "suck it up" and use the unicode, or is there some Pythonic way to make all values ASCII/latin1 and similarly convert the parameters coming in on the http requests. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en.
