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 18339 The session db backend throws UnicodeEncodeError when used with Oracle eatkin@… nobody "I am experiencing the same symptoms as Ticket #9935, but the supposedly fixed cx_oracle 5.1.1 doesn't resolve this issue. Neither does backdating to 4.4.1 or 4.2.1 (I tested all those). I'm running django 1.4. I ported directly over from a mysql backend that was working great. What else could be useful? Here is my oracle version: {{{ BANNER ---------------------------------------------------------------- Oracle9i Enterprise Edition Release 9.2.0.6.0 - Production PL/SQL Release 9.2.0.6.0 - Production CORE 9.2.0.6.0 Production TNS for Linux: Version 9.2.0.6.0 - Production NLSRTL Version 9.2.0.6.0 - Production }}} and the django error page: {{{ UnicodeEncodeError at /provisioning/nid_list 'ascii' codec can't encode characters in position 0-295: ordinal not in range(128) Request Method: GET Request URL: http://10.250.255.6:8000/provisioning/nid_list Django Version: 1.4 Exception Type: UnicodeEncodeError Exception Value: 'ascii' codec can't encode characters in position 0-295: ordinal not in range(128) Exception Location: /usr/lib/python2.7/base64.py in decodestring, line 321 Python Executable: /usr/bin/python2 Python Version: 2.7.3 Python Path: ['/home/eatkin/django/utopia', '/usr/lib/python27.zip', '/usr/lib/python2.7', '/usr/lib/python2.7/plat-linux2', '/usr/lib/python2.7/lib-tk', '/usr/lib/python2.7/lib-old', '/usr/lib/python2.7/lib-dynload', '/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages', '/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/setuptools-0.6c11.egg-info'] Server time: Thu, 17 May 2012 22:17:39 -0600 }}}" Bug closed Database layer (models, ORM) 1.3 Normal worksforme oracle unicode corruption Unreviewed 0 0 0 0 0 0