Re: UnicodeEncodeError

It might be helpful to provide rather more of the traceback information.

Also, check your database encoding. Somehow you are requiring Django to
convert a Unicode string in to an ASCII string.

regards
Steve

On 9/29/2010 2:01 PM, jean polo wrote:
> hi Steve
>
> do you have any advices for where to look for this to happen ?
>
> I have a basic 'Bien' class and a *very basic* 'Image' class (with a
> ForeignKey to Bien).
> BienAdmin has a ImageInline and that's all.
>
> I am a bit confused..
>
> cheers,
> _y
>
>
>
> On Sep 29, 7:39 pm, Steve Holden <holden...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> It sounds to me as though the image is being transmitted with the wrong
>> MIME Type. Image files are binary data, but something in your
>> application is treating is as a string.
>>
>> regards
>> Steve
>>
>> On 9/29/2010 1:05 PM, werefr0g wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>> Hi,
>>
>>> You should check that your file is actually utf-8 encoded and add the
>>> folliwing right after shebang:
>>> # -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
>>
>>> Le 29/09/2010 18:59, jean polo a crit :
>>>> Hi.
>>>> I get an 'UnicodeEncodeError' if I upload a file (ImageField) with non-
>>>> ascii chars in my application (django-1.2.1).
>>
>>>> I added:
>>
>>>> export LANG='en_US.UTF-8'
>>>> export LC_ALL='en_US.UTF-8'
>>
>>>> in my /etc/apache2/envvars as stated here:
>>>> http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/howto/deployment/modpython/#if-y...
>>
>>>> but I still have the same error (after restarting apache).
>>>> Any hint much appreciated.
>>
>>>> cheers,
>>>> _y
>>
>>>> ps:
>>
>>>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>>>> [snip]
>>>> File "/usr/languages/python/2.6/lib/python2.6/genericpath.py", line
>>>> 18, in exists
>>>> st = os.stat(path)
>>
>>>> UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xe7' in
>>>> position 53: ordinal not in range(128)
>>
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