ValueError: translation table must be 256 characters long

[rors]

Using version 1.2.4, I get the following error when trying to use a ManyToManyField:

Exception Type: ValueError
Exception Value:    translation table must be 256 characters long
Exception Location: /opt/Projects/datamining/eggs/django_ajax_selects-1.2.4-py2.6.egg/ajax_select/fields.py in __init__, line 210

That seems to be a problem with the line that reads:

en_help = help_text.translate('en')

which doesn't seem to be valid Python: http://docs.python.org/library/string.html#string.translate

I would submit a patch but I'm not sure exactly what was even intended here.

thanks.

[taivo]

Hi, I'm not sure what the final decision was for this issue given the related discussion at https://github.com/brianmay/django-ajax-selects/issues/1

I've just encountered this error and it looks like the quick (though perhaps not best) work around for this error is to set your help_text to unicode, i.e., u"my help text". That hint was buried in the discussion cited above.

Hope this comment help save other people time.

[mcalvo]

The brianmay fix works. It's a one line change, but it fixes the weird translation error.

[crucialfelix]

actually that particular error was much simpler: you supplied '' instead of u''
in the new release I have added a check for that common case, and the code for the monkey patching has changed so it doesn't try to translate your input anyway.
should be solved now