Here is how my form is set up (all the fields are the same):

class AddColourForm(forms.Form):

    colour = forms.CharField(
        widget=TextInput(attrs={'class':'form-control'}),
        max_length=100,
        required=False,
        label = "Colour:",
    )

Here is my view:

if form.is_valid():
    selected_colour.code = form.cleaned_data['code'],
    selected_colour.name = form.cleaned_data['colour'],
    selected_colour.save()

Here is what happens when it goes into the db:

(u'red',) (u'#ff0000',)

I have tried adding unicode() wrappers around the cleaned data before saving but that isn't working.

Does anyone have any other suggestions?