I have a database which is synchronized against an external web source twice a day. This web source contains a bunch of entries, which have names and some extra information about these names.

Some of these names are silly and I want to rename them when inserting them into my own database. To rename these silly names, I have a standard dictionary as such:

RENAME_TABLE = { "Wsird" : "Weird", ... }

As you can see, this is where UTF-8 comes into play. This is the function which performs renaming of all the problematic entries:

def rename_all_entries():
    all_keys = RENAME_TABLE.keys()
    entries = Entry.objects.filter(name__in=all_keys)
    for entry in entries:
        entry.name = RENAME_TABLE[entry.name]
        entry.save()

So it tries to find the old name in RENAME_TABLE and renames the entry if found. However, I get a KeyError exception when using RENAME_TABLE[entry.name].

Now I'm lost, what do I do? I have...

# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-

...in the top of the Python file.