如下: 
 
Warning at /admin/assets/add/ 
Incorrect string value: '\xE5\x93\x88\xD5\x92\x88...' for column 'Name' at row 1 
Request Method: POST 
Request URL: http://127.0.0.1:8000/admin/assets/add/ 
Django Version: 1.2.3 
Exception Type: Warning 
Exception Value: 
Incorrect string value: '\xE5\x93\x88\xD5\x92\x88...' for column 'Name' at row 1 
Exception Location: /usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7.1/MySQLdb/cursors.py in _warning_check, line 82 
Python Executable: /usr/bin/python 
Python Version: 2.7.1 
 初步判断 应该是mysql的问题 [代研究本质问题]: 
在my.ini 添加如下: 
 
[client] 
character-set-client = utf8 
default-character-set = utf8 
[mysqld] 
character-set-server = utf8 
character-set-filesystem = utf8[mysql] 
init_connect='SET NAMES utf8' 
[mysql] 
default-character-set=utf8 
 重启mysql服务器,问题解决。 
查看创建mysql数据库的默认编码: 
show create database db_name; 
更改已经创建的db的编码: 
alter database db_name character set utf8 collate utf8_general_ci; 
查看数据库相关信息: 
mysql>status 
查看数据库相关信息2: 
mysql> show variables like 'char%';