Unicode recipients in settings ADMINS and MANAGERS

[zodi]

Following the unicode merge.
​Settings documentation should point out that full names for recipients in ADMINS and MANAGERS must be defined as u'' if it contains none ASCII characters.

If not it causes a tricky UnicodeDecodeError, disabling djangos traceback view and spitting out a plain text error.

(Or should it be considered a bug?)

[Malcolm Tredinnick]

Are you saying the UTF-8 encoded bytestring (Python str objects that are UTF-8 encoded) do not work in those places?

[zodi <zodizz@…>]

Ok now its just getting weirder.

I tried to reproduce the issue with a cleaner project and didn't get the same error until I set the DATABASE_ENGINE just give it a working db and user without running the first syncdb. Seams to be a Mysql issue somehow because sqlite3 works just fine.

Tested with:

• Win XP
• Python 2.4.3
• Django Latest svn
• Mysql 5.0.41 and 5.0.32 on debian via ssh tunnel

And yes it's the UTF-8 encoded bytestring that seams to be causing it

ADMINS = (
    ('Your Nameåäö', 'your_email@domain.com'),
)

fails

ADMINS = (
    (u'Your Nameåäö', 'your_email@domain.com'),
)

works

And this is the development server I'm testing with. Might just be my configuration?

[zodi <zodizz@…>]

UnicodeDecodeError

[zodi]

Appears to only cause problems with the development server

And some clarification, the error is triggered when viewing a traceback view for a triggered error.

[Jacob]

If you're using non-ASCII in a Python file, it needs a ​coding declaration like # -*- coding: utf-8 -*-. Without one, you'll get errors like this. Django can't do anything differently here; the problem hits before we get a chance to do anything about it.