Issue in Django 1.8.5 model class

[Nitish Nandanan]

Hi Team,

I am a Django developer. Here I am using Django 1.8.5 version to develop the application. I am facing one issue with Django model class.

Below is one sample model class which I am using in my application,

class Subgroup(models.Model):

subgroupname = models.TextField(max_length=50,null=True,blank=True)
description = models.TextField(null = True,blank = True)
workgroup = models.ForeignKey(Workgroup)
rowstamp = models.IntegerField(null=True, blank=True)
active = models.BooleanField(default=True)
group_leader = models.ForeignKey(UserProfile, null=True, blank=True)

def str(self):

return self.subgroupname

class Meta:

verbose_name_plural = "Subgroups"

The above model class is returning "Subgroup Name" as a value of that object. We have a our own admin interface area to enter this subgroup name and values for the above model class. If any invalid characters (eg:- '→' ) included in the subgroup name, Django will throw below error, while rendering this subgroup object in Django templates.

Error message getting:
==

encoding, errors)\nUnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'
u2013' in position 11: ordinal not in range(128)

I think Django doesn't have any in-built error handling if any invalid characters included in the model value.

I am requesting you to check this issue on priority and suggest us a solution for this

Please let me know if you need any additional information

Thanks & Regards
Nitish Nandanan