Bug 585494: nickname blacklist is all utf-8'd up now

apps/users/admin.py

@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 from django.contrib import admin, messages
 from django.db.utils import IntegrityError
+from django.utils.encoding import smart_unicode
 
 import jingo
 
@@ -52,7 +53,7 @@ def add_view(self, request, form_url='', extra_context=None):
                     if BlacklistedNickname.blocked(n):
                         duplicates += 1
                         continue
-                    n = n.decode().lower().encode('utf-8')
+                    n = smart_unicode(n).lower().encode('utf-8')
                     try:
                         BlacklistedNickname.objects.create(nickname=n)
                         inserted += 1

apps/users/models.py

@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@
 from django.core.mail import send_mail
 from django.db import models
 from django.template import Context, loader
+from django.utils.encoding import smart_unicode
 
 import caching.base as caching
 import commonware.log
@@ -204,7 +205,7 @@ def __unicode__(self):
     @classmethod
     def blocked(cls, nick):
         """Check to see if a nickname is in the (cached) blacklist."""
-        nick = nick.decode().lower().encode('utf-8')
+        nick = smart_unicode(nick).lower()
         qs = cls.objects.all()
         f = lambda: dict(qs.values_list('nickname', 'id'))
         blacklist = caching.cached_with(qs, f, 'blocked')