#17816: UnicodeEncodeError in Image- and FileFields
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Reporter: andi@… | Owner: nobody
Type: | Status: new
Cleanup/optimization | Version: 1.3
Component: Forms | Resolution:
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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Changes (by akaariai):
* cc: anssi.kaariainen@… (added)
Comment:
Isn't this the nice "you must set your locale correctly for your web-
server user" error. Something like this:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6171278/unicode-in-django-admin. If you
Google for this there are lot more similar errors to be found.
I, too, was hit with this issue some time ago. I have two suggestions:
- Issue a warning when Django is ran in non-UTF8 environment. Granted,
this will be hidden in the log files, but still gives developers a chance
to fix this before bug-reports from production. This is one of those bugs
which are hard to spot in testing...
- When the unicode error happens in file saving, convert it to a more
explanatory one. Link to documentation explaining this issue if possible.
You could also issue an warning always when a file save operation gets an
unicode string and the server is not in UTF-8 locale setting, even if
there isn't any actual error.
Of course, adding more warnings about this in the documentation is one way
forward, too.
I am not too sure if the optional conversion is a good solution. The
problem here is that you will still get the error in production. You will
not remember to check that option _before_ you are hit with this, and
having it default to on is not going to work. If there are enough users
who want that option then why not, but it will not magically solve this
problem.
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