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Asked: 2026-06-15T09:15:48+00:00

I have written a basic script that imports several thousand values into a Django

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I have written a basic script that imports several thousand values into a Django database. Here’s how it looks like: link.

Those locations are in Cyrillic letters, and are represented as unicode literals. However, as soon as I save them to the database, they are converted to what seems to be encoded simple strings, in some sort of hex encoding:

>>> Region.objects.all()[0].parent
'\xd0\xbe\xd0\xb1\xd0\xbb\xd0\xb0\xd1\x81\xd1\x82 \xd0\xa1\xd0\xbb\xd0\xb8\xd0\xb2\xd0\xb5\xd0\xbd'

Surprisingly, they appear correctly in the admin panel, but I have trouble when trying to use them. How do I store and retrieve them as unicode?

I’m running Django 1.4.0 on top of MySQL, collation set to utf8_bin.

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  1. Editorial Team

    This is a Django/MySQL “bug”. See issue #16052. It’s actually documented here.

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