Entries published on November 10, 2007
Unicode in the real world
Django’s Unicode branch merged back over the summer, but I imagine there are a lot of people who are still using pre-Unicode versions of Django and so haven’t started updating their code yet (it was several months before I had fully updated this site, for example). For the most part, updating to work with post-Unicode Django is pretty easy (and made even easier by Malcolm’s handy checklist), but there are still some things you’ll need to be careful about; one in particular is how to handle external APIs you need to work with, which aren’t guaranteed to support …