UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character

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When uploading files with non-ASCII characters I get UnicodeEncodeError:

Exception Type: UnicodeEncodeError at /admin/studio/newsitem/add/
Exception Value: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xf8' in position 78: ordinal not in range(128)

See full stack trace.

I run Django 1.2 with MySQL and nginx and FastCGI.

This is a problem that is fixed according to the Django Trac database, but I still have the problem. Any suggestions on how to fix are welcome.

EDIT: This is my image field:

image = models.ImageField(_('image'), upload_to='uploads/images', max_length=100)
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12 Answers

As said before, it is related to locale. For exemple, if you use gunicorn to serve your django application, you may have an init.d script (or, as me, a runit script), where you can set the locale.

To solve UnicodeEncodeError with file upload, put something like export LC_ALL=en_US.UTF8 in your script that run your app.

For example, this is mine (using gunicorn and runit):

#!/bin/bash
export LC_ALL=en_US.UTF8
cd /path/to/app/projectname
exec gunicorn_django -b localhost:8000 --workers=2

Also, you can check your locale in your template, using this in your view:

import locale
data_to_tpl = {'loc': locale.getlocale(), 'lod_def': locale.getdefaultlocale()}

And just disply {{loc}} - {{loc_def}} in your template.

You will have more information about your locale settings! That was very usefull for me.

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