id summary reporter owner description type status component version severity resolution keywords cc stage has_patch needs_docs needs_tests needs_better_patch easy ui_ux 11710 construct_change_message() with unicode verbose_name fix Joshua Russo nobody I had a verbose name for a model that used non-ascii unicode characters and that caused the construct_change_message() method to thow an exception. So I added force_unicode() around the verbose_name retrieval. closed contrib.admin dev fixed construct_change_message exception ascii unicode Accepted 1 0 0 0 0 0