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UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character

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)
Solution

  • After investigating this some more I found out that I hadn't set the charset in my main Nginx config file:

    http {
  charset  utf-8;
}

    By adding the above, the problem disappeared and I think that this is the correct way of handling this issue.