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)
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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)
