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
12892	UnicodeEncodeError in contrib.admindocs with non-EN locale	Beuc	nobody	"I have this in my urls.py:
    (r'^admin/doc/', include('django.contrib.admindocs.urls')),

and this in my settings.py:
LANGUAGE_CODE = 'fr'
# (same with 'fr-fr')

If I go to http://localhost:8000/admin/doc/models/auth.user/

I get:
Unicode error hint

The string that could not be encoded/decoded was: <modèle :u

Environment:

Request Method: GET
Request URL: http://localhost:8000/admin/doc/models/auth.user/
Django Version: 1.1.1
Python Version: 2.5.5
Installed Applications:
['django.contrib.auth',
 'django.contrib.contenttypes',
 'django.contrib.sessions',
 'django.contrib.admin',
 'django.contrib.admindocs',
 'test421']
Installed Middleware:
('django.middleware.common.CommonMiddleware',
 'django.contrib.sessions.middleware.SessionMiddleware',
 'django.contrib.auth.middleware.AuthenticationMiddleware',
 'test421.middleware.requirelogin.RequireLoginMiddleware')

Traceback:
File ""/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.5/django/core/handlers/base.py"" in get_response
  92.                 response = callback(request, *callback_args, **callback_kwargs)
File ""/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.5/django/contrib/admin/views/decorators.py"" in _checklogin
  33.             return view_func(request, *args, **kwargs)
File ""/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.5/django/contrib/admindocs/views.py"" in model_detail
  228.             'verbose': utils.parse_rst(_(""all %s"") % verbose , 'model', _('model:') + opts.module_name),
File ""/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.5/django/contrib/admindocs/utils.py"" in parse_rst
  70.                 settings_overrides=overrides)
File ""/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.5/docutils/core.py"" in publish_parts
  432.         enable_exit_status=enable_exit_status)
File ""/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.5/docutils/core.py"" in publish_programmatically
  646.     output = pub.publish(enable_exit_status=enable_exit_status)
File ""/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.5/docutils/core.py"" in publish
  203.                                              self.settings)
File ""/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.5/docutils/readers/__init__.py"" in read
  69.         self.parse()
File ""/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.5/docutils/readers/__init__.py"" in parse
  74.         self.document = document = self.new_document()
File ""/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.5/docutils/readers/__init__.py"" in new_document
  80.         document = utils.new_document(self.source.source_path, self.settings)
File ""/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.5/docutils/utils.py"" in new_document
  426.     source_path = decode_path(source_path)
File ""/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.5/docutils/utils.py"" in decode_path
  340.         path = path.decode(sys.getfilesystemencoding(), 'strict')
File ""/usr/lib/python2.5/encodings/utf_8.py"" in decode
  16.     return codecs.utf_8_decode(input, errors, True)

Exception Type: UnicodeEncodeError at /admin/doc/models/auth.user/
Exception Value: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xe8' in position 4: ordinal not in range(128)


If I switch to:
LANGUAGE_CODE='en-US'

the problem disappears.

It looks like the translated string is not properly declared as Unicode.
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