Primary key can't be string with unicode characters

[Maciej Wiśniowski]

Model defined like:

class Actor(models.Model):

name = models.CharField(max_length=20, primary_key=True)

when trying to save it:

travolta = Actor(name="Zażółć")
travolta.save()

There is UnicodeDecodeError at:
django.db.base.Model -> save function:

File ".../lib/python2.4/site-packages/django/db/models/base.py", line 218, in save

pk_set = pk_val is not None and pk_val != u

UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc5 in position 2: ordinal not in range(128)

fix should use smart_unicode like:
pk_set = pk_val is not None and smart_unicode(pk_val) != u

[anonymous]

Is there a relationship with ticket:4725 (Quote problem with string primary keys in the admin panel) ?

[Maciej Wiśniowski]

I think it is not connected. Here, there is an issue with saving to rdbms and in 4725 the problem is with querying database and quoting

[Maciej Wiśniowski]

Patch against revision 6193

[Jacob]

(In [6200]) Fixed #5448: you can now use unicode characters in primary keys. Thanks, pigletto.