How can I check a Python unicode string to see that it *actually* is proper Unicode?

Question

So I have this page:

http://hub.iis.sinica.edu.tw/cytoHubba/

Apparently it\'s all kinds of messed up, as it gets decoded properly but when I try to save it in po

Answer 1

To solve my similar problems with django/postgress I now do something like this

class SafeTextField(models.TextField)
    def get_prep_value(self, value):
        encoded = base64.encodestring(value).strip()
        return super(SafeTextField, self).get_prep_value(encoded)
    def to_python(self, value):
        decoded = base64.decodestring(value)
        return super(SafeTextField, self).to_python(decoded)