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8156	UnicodeEncodeError on repr of UploadedFile with unicode name	Karen Tracey	marco	"If I create an !UploadedFile with a unicode name that contains non-ASCII chars, I get a !UnicodeEncodeError attempting to display its representation in a Python shell:

{{{
>>> from django.core.files.uploadedfile import UploadedFile
>>> uf = UploadedFile(name=u'¿Cómo',content_type='text')
>>> uf
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File ""<stdin>"", line 1, in <module>
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xbf' in position 15: ordinal not in range(128)
>>> uf.__repr__()
u'<UploadedFile: \xbfC\xf3mo (text)>'
 
}}}

The implementation of `__repr__` here is: 

{{{
    def __repr__(self):
        return ""<%s: %s (%s)>"" % (self.__class__.__name__, self.name, self.content_type)
}}}

I think `__repr__` for !UploadedFile needs to take into account the fact that the file name may be Unicode with non-ASCII chars and convert it into an ASCII-only representation before including it in the return value.  As it is this implementation returns unicode, where I thought `__repr__` was supposed to return only a string (per http://docs.python.org/ref/customization.html ""The return value must be a string object."")?"		closed	File uploads/storage	dev		fixed			Accepted	1	0	0	0	0	0