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
12435	UnicodeEncodeError trying to use non-english letters for format string of date filter	lupus	Jannis Leidel	"When i use |date:""d.m.Y в H:i"", where ""в"" is russian letter, i get the following:


{{{
Original Traceback (most recent call last):
  File ""/home/.../django/template/debug.py"", line 72, in render_node
    result = node.render(context)
  File ""/home/.../django/template/debug.py"", line 88, in render
    output = self.filter_expression.resolve(context)
  File ""/home/.../django/template/__init__.py"", line 580, in resolve
    new_obj = func(obj, *arg_vals)
  File ""/home/.../django/template/defaultfilters.py"", line 689, in date
    return date_format(value, arg)
  File ""/home/.../django/utils/formats.py"", line 54, in date_format
    return dateformat.format(value, get_format(format or 'DATE_FORMAT'))
  File ""/home/.../django/utils/formats.py"", line 47, in get_format
    return getattr(settings, format_type)
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\u0432' in position 6: ordinal not in range(128)
}}}


Language code in settings.py is set to 'ru-ru'


Using rev 11969"		closed	Internationalization	dev		fixed	date filter decode error		Accepted	0	0	0	0	0	0