short_description doesn't work with international characters

[helgiborg]

The following short_description will not show up in the admin interface.

class Comment(models.Model):
    text = models.TextField(core=True)
    time = models.DateTimeField(auto_now=True)

    def commentTime(obj):
        return obj.time
    commentTime.short_description = "Tími"

However, if I change it to the following, it will work correctly:

    commentTime.short_description = "Timi"

[Julian Bez]

You most likely have to use an unicode string (commentTime.short_description = u"Tími") and set your file encoding properly.

[Malcolm Tredinnick]

It is perfectly valid in Django to use UTF-8 strings, so this is a legitimate bug. What should be happening is where the short description is output (in the admin), it needs to be passed through force_unicode().

[Charlie La Mothe]

I am unable to reproduce a situation where a method's short_description is hidden in the admin changelist view due to international characters.

When I first set ( my_method.short_description = "Tími" ), python threw an error upon runserver:

SyntaxError: Non-ASCII character '\xc3' in file .../models.py on line 8, but no encoding declared; see http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0263.html for details

Following the PEP referred to in the error, I fixed this error by inserting the following at the top of my models.py:

# coding=utf-8

I haven't had any issues since I inserted that line.

I will attach tests, although they're probably a mute point since the issue that the ticket raises is invalid.

[Charlie La Mothe]

Tests for revision 8471

[Jacob]

Milestone 1.0 deleted