Upgrade to django 1.8, ++

main/utils.py

@@ -1,14 +1,25 @@
+from __future__ import unicode_literals
 from django.contrib.auth.models import User
 from django.db.models import Q
 
+
 def format_username(firstname, lastname):
     first = firstname.lower().strip().replace(" ", "")[:6].encode('ascii', 'ignore')
     last = lastname.lower().strip().replace(" ", "")[:6].encode('ascii', 'ignore')
 
     return "{0}{1}".format(first, last)
 
+
 def users_with_perm(perm_name):
     return User.objects.filter(
         Q(is_superuser=True) |
         Q(user_permissions__codename=perm_name) |
         Q(groups__permissions__codename=perm_name)).distinct()
+
+
+def users_format_js(users):
+    users_js = []
+    for user in users:
+        users_js.append('"' + user.first_name + ' ' + user.last_name[:1] + '"')
+    users_js = "[{0}]".format(u",".join(users_js))
+    return users_js