You can create a unicode string in Python like this:
Anymodel.name=u'España'
HTH,
Alex
On Apr 11, 9:06 am, "Saik" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi people,
>
> Im trying to use the serialize utils in
> django.core.serializers.xml_serialize and
> django.core.serializers.json, i dont have problems using json but i
> have issues trying something like that:
>
> xml = serializers.serialize("xml", Anymodel.objects.all())
>
> If the model data contains unicode characters (example:
> Anymodel.name='España'). The error is the following:
>
> -------
> exceptions.UnicodeDecodeError Traceback (most
> recent call last)
>
> /usr/local/lib/python2.4/site-packages/django/core/serializers/
> __init__.py in serialize(format, queryset, **options)
> 65 """
> 66 s = get_serializer(format)()
> ---> 67 s.serialize(queryset, **options)
> 68 return s.getvalue()
> 69
>
> /usr/local/lib/python2.4/site-packages/django/core/serializers/base.py
> in serialize(self, queryset, **options)
> 38 if field.rel is None:
> 39 if self.selected_fields is None or
> field.attname in self.selected_fields:
> ---> 40 self.handle_field(obj, field)
> 41 else:
> 42 if self.selected_fields is None or
> field.attname[:-3] in self.selected_fields:
>
> /usr/local/lib/python2.4/site-packages/django/core/serializers/
> xml_serializer.py in handle_field(self, obj, field)
> 70 value = self.get_string_value(obj, field)
> 71 self.xml.characters(str(value))
> ---> 72 else:
> 73 self.xml.addQuickElement("None")
> 74
>
> /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/_xmlplus/sax/saxutils.py in
> characters(self, content)
> 307
> 308 def characters(self, content):
> --> 309 writetext(self._out, content)
> 310
> 311 def ignorableWhitespace(self, content):
>
> /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/_xmlplus/sax/saxutils.py in
> writetext(stream, text, entities)
> 186 def writetext(stream, text, entities={}):
> 187 stream.errors = "xmlcharrefreplace"
> --> 188 stream.write(escape(text, entities))
> 189 stream.errors = "strict"
> 190 else:
>
> /usr/lib/python2.4/codecs.py in write(self, object)
> 176 """ Writes the object's contents encoded to
> self.stream.
> 177 """
> --> 178 data, consumed = self.encode(object, self.errors)
> 179 self.stream.write(data)
> 180
>
> UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position
> 54: ordinal not in range(128)
> ------
>
> I couldn't found any post about that...
>
> Any idea? Im a real noob in unicode things.
>
> Thx a lot in advance,
> Saik
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