i've found the solution. There was missing some language support packages. It's kind of embarrassing :)...
My initial apache configuration was ok. The fact that manage.py runserver just worked , was misleading. Thanks for your help , Alec. I've learned a couple of things dealing with this issue. On Aug 5, 12:15 am, Alec Shaner <asha...@chumpland.org> wrote: > Ah, maybe that makes more sense then. It does indeed sound like locale issue > with your apache + mod_python envrionment. I see an old django ticket that > sounds pretty similar: > > http://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/8965 > > Sounds like you're still getting ASCII as the default encoding despite the > env settings in apache? > > Out of curiosity I created a view to dump the encoding in my django dev app > by calling locale.getpreferredencoding(). In both apache+mod_wsgi and django > development server it returns UTF-8. My linux box is configured with UTF-8 > as the default, so I haven't done anything special with apache. If you put > that in your code and it has UTF-8 in both cases then this issue is beyond > me. > > > > On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 4:10 PM, sohesado <gnubun...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Aug 4, 6:48 pm, Alec Shaner <asha...@chumpland.org> wrote: > > > I'm no expert on encodings so I can only suggest some alternatives that > > > might get around the issue: > > > > First, maybe you can find something here: > >http://docs.python.org/howto/unicode > > > i've read , pretty much everything, available at docs.python.org > > regarding unicode. > > > > You could try the literal method of generating a unicode string: > > > > path = u'%s%s' % (ROOT, name) > > tried it. The problem persists > > > Where exactly do you get the UnicodeEncodeError exception when you remove > > > the unicode calls? > > > I get the the exception at this line -> shutil.copytree(ROOT + > > 'matrix', path) > > > And the traceback... > > > Traceback: > > File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/django/core/handlers/ > > base.py" in get_response > > 100. response = callback(request, > > *callback_args, **callback_kwargs) > > File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/django/contrib/auth/ > > decorators.py" in _wrapped_view > > 25. return view_func(request, *args, **kwargs) > > File "/home/sohesado/codein/wikitool/creators/views.py" in create_wiki > > 42. doku_script.create_wiki(w.name, tmpl, > > request.POST['access_policy'], reg) > > File "/home/sohesado/codein/wikitool/creators/doku_script.py" in > > create_wiki > > 10. create_base(name, reg) > > File "/home/sohesado/codein/wikitool/creators/doku_script.py" in > > create_base > > 16. shutil.copytree(ROOT + u'matrix', path) > > File "/usr/lib/python2.6/shutil.py" in copytree > > 146. os.makedirs(dst) > > File "/usr/lib/python2.6/os.py" in makedirs > > 157. mkdir(name, mode) > > > Exception Type: UnicodeEncodeError at /wikitool/creators/create_wiki/ > > Exception Value: 'ascii' codec can't encode characters in position > > 19-25: ordinal not in range(128) > > > > On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 11:00 AM, sohesado <gnubun...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Well your example clarifies the problem. I removed the unicode calls. > > > > > The initial problem was an UnicodeEncodeError exception. I tried to > > > > solve it by encoding the strings to utf-8. It seems that's not the > > > > case. > > > > So i'm at square one. > > > > > Note that.. > > > > -with python manage.py runserver the app runs flawlessly. > > > > -With apache+mod-python i get an UnicodeEncodeError. > > > > > So , it is an apache localization issue? > > > > > My /etc/apache2/envvars contains > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > --------------------- > > > > export APACHE_RUN_USER=www-data > > > > export APACHE_RUN_GROUP=www-data > > > > export APACHE_PID_FILE=/var/run/apache2.pid > > > > > ## The locale used by some modules like mod_dav > > > > export LANG='el_GR.UTF8' <- also tried el_GR.UTF-8 variation > > > > export LC_ALL='el_GR.UTF8' > > > > ## Uncomment the following line to use the system default locale > > > > instead: > > > > #. /etc/default/locale > > > > > export LANG > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > ------------------------------ > > > > > Have you got any clues what may cause the problem? > > > > > Thank you for your help. > > > > > On Aug 3, 11:31 pm, Alec Shaner <asha...@chumpland.org> wrote: > > > > > unicode gives me nightmares. > > > > > > Taking django out of the picture for a moment:>>> unicode('foo', > > 'utf-8') > > > > > u'foo' > > > > > >>> unicode(u'foo', 'utf-8') > > > > > > Traceback (most recent call last): > > > > > File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> > > > > > TypeError: decoding Unicode is not supported > > > > > > So I would assume when you run it inside django you're already using > > a > > > > > unicode string. Do you need to pass the encoding argument ('utf-8') > > to > > > > > unicode? > > > > > > On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 3:30 PM, sohesado <gnubun...@gmail.com> > > wrote: > > > > > > Hi > > > > > > > I'm currently developing a django project and i've encountered a > > > > > > problem regarding Unicode string manipulation. > > > > > > > There is a backend python module in my project that perform's > > mainly > > > > > > shutil (shell utilities) tasks. > > > > > > > I get an TypeError: "decoding Unicode is not supported" exception > > > > > > while running the following method > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > ------------------------------ > > > > > > def create_base(name, reg): > > > > > > path = unicode(ROOT + name, 'utf-8') <<<< error at this line > > > > > > shutil.copytree(ROOT + 'matrix', path) > > > > > > shutil.copystat(ROOT + 'matrix', path) > > > > > > > f = codecs.open(path + '/conf/local.php', "w", "UTF-8") > > > > > > tmp = unicode("<?php\n$conf['title'] = " + name + ";\n", > > 'utf-8') > > > > > > f.write(tmp) > > > > > > if not reg: > > > > > > f.write("$conf['disableactions'] = 'register';\n") > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > ---------------------------- > > > > > > > The weird thing that puzzles me is that when i test the module in a > > > > > > python shell , the method runs flawlessly which yields me to the > > > > > > assumption that it's a django thing. > > > > > > By the way i use apache+mod-python as a web-server > > > > > > > I can't get adequate information regarding this type of exception. > > I'm > > > > > > stuck , please help. > > > > > > > -- > > > > > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > > > > Groups > > > > > > "Django users" group. > > > > > > To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com > > . > > > > > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > > > > > django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<django-users%2bunsubscr...@google > > > > > > groups.com> > > <django-users%2bunsubscr...@google groups.com> > > > > <django-users%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com<django-users%252bunsubscr...@g > > > > ooglegroups.com> > > <django-users%252bunsubscr...@g ooglegroups.com> > > > > > > > . > > > > > > For more options, visit this group at > > > > > >http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en. > > > > > -- > > > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > > Groups > > > > "Django users" group. > > > > To post to this group, send email to django-us...@googlegroups.com. > > > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > > > django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<django-users%2bunsubscr...@google > > > > groups.com> > > <django-users%2bunsubscr...@google groups.com> > > > > . > > > > For more options, visit this group at > > > >http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en. > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > "Django users" group. > > To post to this group, send email to django-us...@googlegroups.com. > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<django-users%2bunsubscr...@google > > groups.com> > > . > > For more options, visit this group at > >http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. 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