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4th July 2007 - Link Blog

UnicodeBranch: Porting Applications. A checklist for porting Django applications to handle the new unicode changes. If your application only handles ASCII text at the moment you shouldn’t have to change a thing.

Posted 4th July 2007 at 2:41 pm

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