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    copied!<p>Updates: Thanks for Udi's recommendation, i turned on debug and updated the error message plus my model</p> <p>Here is my model:</p> <pre><code>class booktitle(models.Model): added_by = models.ForeignKey(User) book_title_zh = models.CharField(max_length=255) book_desc_zh = models.TextField(blank=True, null=True) author_zh = models.CharField(max_length=255) publisher_zh = models.CharField(max_length=255) category = models.ForeignKey(category) cover_img = models.ImageField(upload_to='books/book_img_cover', blank=True, null=True) last_updated = models.DateField(auto_now=True) date_added = models.DateField(auto_now=True) class Meta: ordering = ('-date_added',) verbose_name = 'Book : 書本' verbose_name_plural = 'Book : 書本' </code></pre> <p>I have a standard django installation. When i use it to upload filename with Chinese Characters, it shows the following error:</p> <blockquote> <p>UnicodeEncodeError at /admin/booksfair/booktitle/6/ 'ascii' codec can't encode characters in position 51-53: ordinal not in range(128) Request Method: POST Request URL: <a href="http://www.mydomain.com/admin/booksfair/booktitle/6/" rel="nofollow">http://www.mydomain.com/admin/booksfair/booktitle/6/</a> Django Version: 1.4 pre-alpha SVN-16395 Exception Type: UnicodeEncodeError Exception Value: 'ascii' codec can't encode characters in position 51-53: ordinal not in range(128) Exception Location: /usr/lib/python2.6/genericpath.py in exists, line 18 Python Executable: /usr/bin/python Python Version: 2.6.7 Python Path:<br> ['/usr/lib/python26.zip', '/usr/lib/python2.6', '/usr/lib/python2.6/plat-linux2', '/usr/lib/python2.6/lib-tk', '/usr/lib/python2.6/lib-old', '/usr/lib/python2.6/lib-dynload', '/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages', '/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/PIL', '/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/gtk-2.0', '/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/setuptools-0.6c11-py2.6.egg-info', '/var/www', '/var/www/html/django/website', '/var/www/html/django']</p> </blockquote> <p>I have found some resolution here, but it doesn't work for my case, this is not a duplicated post. Thank you.</p>
 

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