On 5/2/12, Bastian <bastien.roche...@gmail.com> wrote: > This happens when trying to upload a file with a filename that is not in > ascii. In this case I tried éè´´çoöp_iI$.jpg. The strange thing is that > firefox uploads it but chrome gets the error! > I know this has been discussed already but the solutions mentioned did not > work: I tried to change encoding = "ascii" to encoding = "utf-8" in site.py > then I tried to add export LANG='en_US.UTF-8' and export > LC_ALL='en_US.UTF-8' in Apache envvars. > The problem seems to be in the path since it happens at save time and the > genericpath.py / exists is called to verify the path and returns what > follows. Any hint is welcome. This is an ubuntu server but it happens also > on the debian box. Django 1.3.1, python 2.7. The view is a form with > request.POST that is saved. > > > > 1. > 2. > > # Does a path exist? > > 3. > > # This is false for dangling symbolic links on systems that support them. > > 4. > > def exists(path): > > 5. > > """Test whether a path exists. Returns False for broken symbolic > links""" > > 6. > > try: > > > > 1. > > os.stat(path) > > ... > > > 1. > > except os.error: > > 2. > > return False > > 3. > > return True > > 4. > 5. > 6. > > # This follows symbolic links, so both islink() and isdir() can be true > > > ▼ Local vars <http://lrdev:8910/looks/create/#> > VariableValuepath > > u'/home/dev/user_media/imgs/\xe9\xe8\xe7o\xf6p_iI.jpg'
You might try reaching in and encoding the filename yourself, to utf-8, or maybe url encoding it. If this is happening in the admin, then the easiest approaches may be to use a customized field, or a field with a customized widget (you can probably sub-class, rather than going from scratch). Bill -- 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. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en.
