Fixed #12849 -- Corrected the way strings are encoded for display by the colorizer so that they work with unicode. Thanks to jype for the report, and frasern for his work on the issue.

git-svn-id: http://code.djangoproject.com/svn/django/trunk@12803 bcc190cf-cafb-0310-a4f2-bffc1f526a37

django/core/management/base.py

@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ from optparse import make_option, OptionParser
 import django
 from django.core.exceptions import ImproperlyConfigured
 from django.core.management.color import color_style
+from django.utils.encoding import smart_str
 
 try:
     set
@@ -214,7 +215,7 @@ class BaseCommand(object):
             except ImportError, e:
                 # If settings should be available, but aren't,
                 # raise the error and quit.
-                sys.stderr.write(self.style.ERROR(str('Error: %s\n' % e)))
+                sys.stderr.write(smart_str(self.style.ERROR('Error: %s\n' % e)))
                 sys.exit(1)
         try:
             if self.requires_model_validation:
@@ -230,7 +231,7 @@ class BaseCommand(object):
                 if self.output_transaction:
                     print self.style.SQL_KEYWORD("COMMIT;")
         except CommandError, e:
-            sys.stderr.write(self.style.ERROR(str('Error: %s\n' % e)))
+            sys.stderr.write(smart_str(self.style.ERROR('Error: %s\n' % e)))
             sys.exit(1)
 
     def validate(self, app=None, display_num_errors=False):

django/utils/termcolors.py

@@ -38,7 +38,6 @@ def colorize(text='', opts=(), **kwargs):
         print colorize('and so should this')
         print 'this should not be red'
     """
-    text = str(text)
     code_list = []
     if text == '' and len(opts) == 1 and opts[0] == 'reset':
         return '\x1b[%sm' % RESET