> I've been told that I may have encountered abug- I'm trying to
> serialize a model that includes fields that could beunicodedata.
> Here is the information I collected.  Let me know if there's anything
> else that would be helpful.

> Specs of the local dev workstation - having the same issues in prod
> using Linux/FastCGI:

> Windows XP Home Edition Version 2002 SP 2
> Python 2.4.4
> Latest Django from SVN: 0.97-pre-SVN-6024
> SQLite3
> Using internal django web server (for dev)

> Here's the traceback:

> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "C:\Python24\lib\site-packages\django\core\handlers\base.py" in
> get_response
>  77. response = callback(request, *callback_args, **callback_kwargs)
> File "C:\Documents and Settings\Gabe Harriman\My
> Documents\dev\texty\cms\views.py" in syndicate
>  178. comments = serializers.serialize("json",
> texty.comment_set.all(), fields=('name','comment','created_date',),
> ensure_ascii=False)
> File "C:\Python24\lib\site-packages\django\core\serializers
> \__init__.py"
> in serialize
>  67. s.serialize(queryset, **options)
> File "C:\Python24\lib\site-packages\django\core\serializers\base.py"
> in serialize
>  50. self.end_serialization()
> File "C:\Python24\lib\site-packages\django\core\serializers\json.py"
> in end_serialization
>  26. simplejson.dump(self.objects, self.stream,
> cls=DjangoJSONEncoder, **self.options)
> File "C:\Python24\lib\site-packages\django\utils\simplejson
> \__init__.py" in dump
>  139. fp.write(chunk)

>  UnicodeEncodeError at /cms/syndicate/d5f8eba5-d4a8-4590-
> a3d9-4d9e34503c5b.js
>  'ascii' codec can't encode characters in position 1-7: ordinal not
> in range(128)

> Unicodeerror hint:
> The string that could not be encoded/decoded was: "ﺥﺾﻤﻼﺚﻴﻴ"

> As you can see from above, the error starts here:

> comments = serializers.serialize("json", texty.comment_set.all(),
> fields=('name','comment','created_date',), ensure_ascii=False)

> The data in the name field is "ﺥﺾﻤﻼﺚﻴﻴ".  The rest is normal ascii
> data.

> Let me know if this looks like abugor not.  If not, I'll keep
> hacking away on my end.  Sorry if I left anything out - I'm new to
> this wholeunicodething.

> I've been told that I may have encountered abug- I'm trying to
> serialize a model that includes fields that could beunicodedata.
> Here is the information I collected.  Let me know if there's anything
> else that would be helpful.

> Specs of the local dev workstation - having the same issues in prod
> using Linux/FastCGI:

> Windows XP Home Edition Version 2002 SP 2
> Python 2.4.4
> Latest Django from SVN: 0.97-pre-SVN-6024
> SQLite3
> Using internal django web server (for dev)

> Here's the traceback:

> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "C:\Python24\lib\site-packages\django\core\handlers\base.py" in
> get_response
>  77. response = callback(request, *callback_args, **callback_kwargs)
> File "C:\Documents and Settings\Gabe Harriman\My
> Documents\dev\texty\cms\views.py" in syndicate
>  178. comments = serializers.serialize("json",
> texty.comment_set.all(), fields=('name','comment','created_date',),
> ensure_ascii=False)
> File "C:\Python24\lib\site-packages\django\core\serializers
> \__init__.py"
> in serialize
>  67. s.serialize(queryset, **options)
> File "C:\Python24\lib\site-packages\django\core\serializers\base.py"
> in serialize
>  50. self.end_serialization()
> File "C:\Python24\lib\site-packages\django\core\serializers\json.py"
> in end_serialization
>  26. simplejson.dump(self.objects, self.stream,
> cls=DjangoJSONEncoder, **self.options)
> File "C:\Python24\lib\site-packages\django\utils\simplejson
> \__init__.py" in dump
>  139. fp.write(chunk)

>  UnicodeEncodeError at /cms/syndicate/d5f8eba5-d4a8-4590-
> a3d9-4d9e34503c5b.js
>  'ascii' codec can't encode characters in position 1-7: ordinal not
> in range(128)

> Unicodeerror hint:
> The string that could not be encoded/decoded was: "ﺥﺾﻤﻼﺚﻴﻴ"

> As you can see from above, the error starts here:

> comments = serializers.serialize("json", texty.comment_set.all(),
> fields=('name','comment','created_date',), ensure_ascii=False)

> The data in the name field is "ﺥﺾﻤﻼﺚﻴﻴ".  The rest is normal ascii
> data.

> Let me know if this looks like abugor not.  If not, I'll keep
> hacking away on my end.  Sorry if I left anything out - I'm new to
> this wholeunicodething.