UnicodeEncodeError when entering Unicode character in DecimalField

[Julian Bez]

When you have a DecimalField and you enter a Unicode character like € it doesn't just invalidate, it gives you an error.

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "c:\django_src\django\core\handlers\base.py" in _real_get_response
  81. response = callback(request, *callback_args, **callback_kwargs)
File "c:\django_src\django\contrib\auth\decorators.py" in _checklogin
  17. return view_func(request, *args, **kwargs)
File "xx" in xx
  764. errors = manipulator.get_validation_errors(new_data)
File "c:\django_src\django\oldforms\__init__.py" in get_validation_errors
  61. errors.update(field.get_validation_errors(new_data))
File "c:\django_src\django\oldforms\__init__.py" in get_validation_errors
  378. self.run_validator(new_data, validator)
File "c:\django_src\django\oldforms\__init__.py" in run_validator
  368. validator(new_data.get(self.field_name, ''), new_data)
File "c:\django_src\django\oldforms\__init__.py" in isValidDecimal
  789. v(field_data, all_data)
File "c:\django_src\django\core\validators.py" in __call__
  435. val = Decimal(field_data)
File "C:\Programme\Python24\lib\decimal.py" in __new__
  544. if _isinfinity(value):
File "C:\Programme\Python24\lib\decimal.py" in _isinfinity
  2930. num = str(num).lower()

  UnicodeEncodeError at /example/
  'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\u20ac' in position 3: ordinal not in range(128)

[Jacob]

Yuck.

[Julian Bez]

Oldforms is history.