UnicodeEncodeError on contains and icontains

[Gacha]

I got UnicodeEncodeError when I try to search with "icontains" and unicode string.

In [26]: Product.objects.filter(name=unicode('Fantasia - ķiršu','utf-8'))
Out[26]: [<Product: Fantasia - ķiršu>]

In [27]: Product.objects.filter(name__icontains=unicode('Fantasia - ķiršu','utf-8'))
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exceptions.UnicodeEncodeError                        Traceback (most recent call last)
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/home/***/django/db/models/fields/__init__.py in <lambda>(x)
     23
     24 # prepares a value for use in a LIKE query
---> 25 prep_for_like_query = lambda x: str(x).replace("\\", "\\\\").replace("%", "\%").replace("_", "\_")
     26
     27 # returns the <ul> class for a given radio_admin value

UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\u0137' in position 11: ordinal not in range(128)

[Gacha]

Patch replaces the str() function with unicode() function in django/db/models/fields/init.py at 25 line.

[Michael Radziej <mir@…>]

Gaicha, currently you should not use unicode strings within the database API. It is planned to support this in the future, but as long as this has not happened, you'll run into all sorts of problems. Better use utf8-encoded bytestrings.

[Michael Radziej <mir@…>]

Sorry for misspelling your name, Gacha.

[Michael Radziej <mir@…>]

This is a duplicate of #2489, our general unicodification ticket ...