<font face="courier new,monospace">With the information you provided I'd first try this on a python prompt on a working machine : "Köln" == u"Bonn"<br>If this does not throw the same error, somebody changed the python default encoding. Then I'd look if some of my validators get constraints with umlauts. <br>
But I guess, you tried that already?<br></font><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 7:12 PM, Charlie Clark <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:charlie.clark@clark-consulting.eu" target="_blank">charlie.clark@clark-consulting.eu</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi,<br>
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one of my sites has (hopefully) started behaving funny. I have a formlib driven contact form that is rejecting any input that is not ascii as part of the validation step of the form:<br>
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UnicodeWarning: Unicode equal comparison failed to convert both arguments to Unicode - interpreting them as being unequal<br>
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I may have got this wrong but I thought inputs into forms could be considered as unicode and we only had to worry about them when storing them in case they were being accessed by non-unicode-aware code.<br>
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What's really puzzling is that I have almost identical forms on other sites that don't exhibit this behaviour which makes me think it must be a configuration error such as the default encoding which is set to utf-8 for this site.<br>
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Any ideas?<br>
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Charlie<br>
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