#17816: UnicodeEncodeError in Image- and FileFields
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Reporter: andi@… | Owner: nobody
Type: | Status: closed
Cleanup/optimization | Version: 1.3
Component: Forms | Resolution: needsinfo
Severity: Normal | Triage Stage:
Keywords: | Unreviewed
Has patch: 0 | Needs documentation: 0
Needs tests: 0 | Patch needs improvement: 0
Easy pickings: 0 | UI/UX: 0
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Comment (by clime7@…):
I have encountered a similar problem and I'd like to add some info for
this. Two things can cause unicode errors like this:
1) non-utf8 encoding returned by sys.getdefaultencoding() causes unicode
errors in cases like: str(unicode_string_with_accents), i.e. whenever
there is a conversion from unicode string to byte string without
explicitly specifying encoding like this:
str(unicode_string_with_accents.encode('utf-8')). However, ascii is
default for python 2 and it shouldn't be fiddled with so this is an
expected problem.
2) non-utf8 encoding returned by sys.getfilesystemencoding(). This should
on the other hand really return an utf-8 encoding because otherwise you
get unicode errors in cases like os.stat(unicode_string_with_accents). os
module looks at filesystem encoding when trying to interpret unicode
strings. And on linux file system encoding is inferred from locale of
python interpretter. Specifically there should be LANG=something.utf8 in
the environment.
I have resolved my problem by adding "env = LANG=en_US.utf8" to my
uwsgi.ini. I believe other people with this problem might need to do
something similar.
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