Django with python 2.7 utf-8 problems -

i have problems width encoding characters in (html) template. in database there results :

1. Čaša
2. Šišanje

that words in croatian language. in settings.py language_code have set : language_code = 'hr-hr' tryd language_code = 'hr'. problem when database returns record in forms:

category = forms.modelchoicefield(queryset=category.objects.all().filter(type_id="2"),                                       widget=forms.select(attrs={'class': 'selectpicker'}), label=('kategorija'),                                       initial='1', ) 

and record field must render in html page, selectpicker. when try load page error:

1. exception type: unicodeencodeerror
2. exception value: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\u0107' in position ordinal not in range(128)

python version : 2.7.9

django version : 1.7.7

in models.py, model :

class category(models.model):     id = models.autofield(primary_key=true)     type_id = models.foreignkey('categorytype')     name = models.charfield(max_length=255)      def __str__(self):         return str(self.name) 

i have try with:

  class category(models.model):         id = models.autofield(primary_key=true)         type_id = models.foreignkey('categorytype')         name = models.charfield(max_length=255)          def __str__(self):             return self.name 

do know easy way solve problem, know python 3 have better utf encoding, wanna stay on 2.7.

import sys reload(sys) sys.setdefaultencoding('utf-8') 

have tried this?