Ticket #8410: patch-django.core.backends.memcached-8410.diff

django/core/cache/backends/memcached.py

@@ -17 +17 @@
         self._cache = memcache.Client(server.split(';'))
 
     def add(self, key, value, timeout=0):
-        self._cache.add(key.encode('ascii', 'ignore'), value, timeout or self.default_timeout)
+        if isinstance(value, unicode):
+            value = value.encode('utf-8')
+        self._cache.add(smart_str(key), value, timeout or self.default_timeout)
 
     def get(self, key, default=None):
         val = self._cache.get(smart_str(key))