Form field's label should be unicode

[Anssi Kääriäinen]

Form field's label should always be converted to unicode when using Python 2, even if it is defined as non-unicode string. The conversion is done in 1.5, but not in 1.6-alpha-1. See ​https://github.com/akaariai/django/commit/88595c900225357756f9d3a6d19be871cd2e5584 and ​https://github.com/akaariai/django/commit/398d32277f08b20327c5f9955644dfeffe8cae0e for master and stable/1.5.x test cases.

[Baptiste Mispelon]

Looks like this was intended behavior, introduced by 066bf42675040abd7b1a42e5559890e5f9881058.

[Claude Paroz]

Loud failing for non-ascii bytestrings

[Claude Paroz]

Just attached one way to solve this (failing loudly).

[Anssi Kääriäinen]

I just don't see what is gained by not doing the conversion in field's init. Django allows mixing unicode and str in a lot of places, so why removing that ability from this place only is a good idea? I can see what is gained by consistent use of unicode strings everywhere in Django, but that isn't gained by the original commit.

Still, I don't feel too strongly about this, so if nobody else complains about this then I don't see a need to act on this ticket.

[Anssi Kääriäinen]

Nobody seems to be complaining, so closing this.