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
15778	Command createsuperuser fails under some system user names	Hynek Cernoch <hynek@…>	Alex Gaynor	"Commands 'createsuperuser' and 'syncdb' can not create a superuser account no way because of database error,
if a system account username contains an 8-bit character.
It fails when the name is automatically searched in the database, even if the user wants to write an ascii username manually.
This is typical for usernames created by Microsoft Windows.

{{{
File ""C:\Python26\lib\site-packages\django\contrib\auth\management\commands\createsuperuser.py"", line 72, in handle
  User.objects.get(username=default_username)
...
File ""C:\Python26\lib\site-packages\django\db\backends\sqlite3\base.py"", line 234, in execute
  return Database.Cursor.execute(self, query, params)
DatabaseError : You must not use 8-bit bytestrings unless you use a text_factory that can interpret 
8-bit bytestrings (like text_factory = str). It is highly recommended that you instead just switch 
your application to Unicode strings.
}}}


Versions: Django 1.3, Python 2.6.4 windows, Sqlite3 3.5.9, dbapi 2.4.1

It is easier to fix it once then to circumvent it twice.

The middle part of the patch:
{{{
-            default_username = getpass.getuser().replace(' ', '').lower()
+            default_username = str(getpass.getuser().decode('ascii', 'ignore')).replace(' ', '').lower()
}}}
"	Bug	closed	contrib.auth	1.3	Normal	fixed			Accepted	1	0	1	0	0	0