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1715	"charset problems with umlaut from pythoncode (i.e. verbose_name="""")"	mdt@…	Adrian Holovaty	"i used a line

   geaendert = meta.DateTimeField(verbose_name=""Änderungsdatum"", ....

and got questionmarks on the page showing that name. on the same page other umlauts (coming from djangos localization) where shown correctly. i moved to 

  geaendert = meta.DateTimeField(verbose_name=u""Änderungsdatum"", ....

which immediatly gives the error 

   UnicodeDecodeError 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xe4 in position 65: ordinal not in range(128)

. so i switched back to the first version for now. i changed a field with a name including an umlaut and now i get another error:

  OperationalError at /admin/ Could not decode to UTF-8 column <unknown column name> with text �nderungsdatum und Beschreibung geändert
"	defect	closed	Database layer (models, ORM)		normal	invalid			Unreviewed	0	0	0	0	0	0