Re: 'ascii' codec can't encode characters in position 36-38: ordinal not in range(128)

[Bill Freeman]

On 5/2/12, Bastian  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 
> 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

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'ascii' codec can't encode characters in position 36-38: ordinal not in range(128)

[Bastian]

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 
VariableValuepath

u'/home/dev/user_media/imgs/\xe9\xe8\xe7o\xf6p_iI.jpg'


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