Fixed #2514 -- Improved psycopg2 backend to save/load Unicode strings correctly.…

Fixed #2514 -- Improved psycopg2 backend to save/load Unicode strings correctly. Thanks, crankycoder@gmail.com

git-svn-id: http://code.djangoproject.com/svn/django/trunk@3565 bcc190cf-cafb-0310-a4f2-bffc1f526a37

AUTHORS

@@ -60,6 +60,7 @@ answer newbie questions, and generally made Django that much better:
     Amit Chakradeo <http://amit.chakradeo.net/>
     ChaosKCW
     Ian Clelland <clelland@gmail.com>
+    crankycoder@gmail.com
     Matt Croydon <http://www.postneo.com/>
     Jonathan Daugherty (cygnus) <http://www.cprogrammer.org/>
     Jason Davies (Esaj) <http://www.jasondavies.com/>

django/db/backends/postgresql_psycopg2/base.py

@@ -11,6 +11,10 @@ except ImportError, e:
     from django.core.exceptions import ImproperlyConfigured
     raise ImproperlyConfigured, "Error loading psycopg2 module: %s" % e
 
+# Register Unicode conversions
+import psycopg2.extensions
+psycopg2.extensions.register_type(psycopg2.extensions.UNICODE)
+
 DatabaseError = Database.DatabaseError
 
 try: