Django - UnicodeEncodeError in Production Environment with Apache

Question

I've a Django application in production that is throwing the following error:

'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xe9' in position 97: ordinal not in range(128)
Unicode error hint
The string that could not be encoded/decoded was: P Gen@rica.

P Gen@rica is part of the name of an uploaded file.

The code where the error appears is this:

files_list = [uuid_temp_files + '/' + f for f in os.listdir(uuid_temp_files) if os.path.isfile(os.path.join(uuid_temp_files, f))]

In my Development machine everything is OK, I can add accented filenames to the names of files.

Any clues on what the causes of this error in the production environment? Could be some Apache configuration?

Best Regards,

Why don't you use os.path.join on the left-hand side of your list comprehension as well? — Daniel Roseman
– Daniel Roseman, Commented Nov 30, 2016 at 15:46

André · Accepted Answer · 2016-11-30 15:47:38Z

3

Problem corrected with:

# CentOS use /etc/sysconfig/httpd to config environment variables.
#
# By default, the httpd process is started in the C locale; to
# change the locale in which the server runs, the LANG
# variable can be set.
#
# LANG=C
LANG=en_US.UTF-8  # you can change to your locale.

In the file, "/etc/sysconfig/httpd" change "LANG=C" to "LANG=en_US.UTF-8" then restart Apache.

Done.

answered Nov 30, 2016 at 15:47

André

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