title: Django: UnicodeEncodeError when trying to save non-ascii text
body: <p>I am trying to save a new record with some unicode text in one of the fields.</p>
  
  <p>Saving the unicode text is successful when using the django admin page, but when using the django shell fails with:</p>
  
  <pre><code>UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xe9' in position 15: ordinal not in range(128)
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Any ideas what's wrong and how to fix it?
  Thanks!</p>