Use unicode internally everywhere for 'repr'

2 files changed, 8 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/rest_framework/utils/representation.py b/rest_framework/utils/representation.py
index 3f17a8b9..0d829a83 100644
--- a/rest_framework/utils/representation.py
+++ b/rest_framework/utils/representation.py
@@ -2,9 +2,11 @@
 Helper functions for creating user-friendly representations
 of serializer classes and serializer fields.
 """
+from __future__ import unicode_literals
 from django.db import models
 from django.utils.encoding import force_text
 from django.utils.functional import Promise
+from rest_framework.compat import unicode_repr
 import re
 
 
@@ -24,10 +26,11 @@ def smart_repr(value):
     if isinstance(value, Promise) and value._delegate_text:
         value = force_text(value)
 
-    value = repr(value)
+    value = unicode_repr(value)
 
     # Representations like u'help text'
     # should simply be presented as 'help text'
+    print type(value), value
     if value.startswith("u'") and value.endswith("'"):
         return value[1:]
 
diff --git a/rest_framework/utils/serializer_helpers.py b/rest_framework/utils/serializer_helpers.py
index 277cf649..65a04d06 100644
--- a/rest_framework/utils/serializer_helpers.py
+++ b/rest_framework/utils/serializer_helpers.py
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
+from __future__ import unicode_literals
 import collections
-from rest_framework.compat import OrderedDict
+from rest_framework.compat import OrderedDict, unicode_to_repr
 
 
 class ReturnDict(OrderedDict):
@@ -47,9 +48,9 @@ class BoundField(object):
         return self._field.__class__
 
     def __repr__(self):
-        return '<%s value=%s errors=%s>' % (
+        return unicode_to_repr('<%s value=%s errors=%s>' % (
             self.__class__.__name__, self.value, self.errors
-        )
+        ))
 
 
 class NestedBoundField(BoundField):