Hi Karen My good friend just told me to take a look here and define a function on upload_to that filters special chars from filenames.
http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.2/ref/models/fields/#django.db.models.FileField.upload_to Do you aggree? Would that be the an appropriate solution to solve this problem? Thanks On 13 Jun., 01:47, Karen Tracey <kmtra...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sat, Jun 12, 2010 at 8:37 AM, MIL <needb...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I experience problem with special chars like æøå in filename when > > using models.ImageField. > > > What am I doing wrong? > > > models.py > > picture = models.ImageField(upload_to='pics', blank=True, > > verbose_name='Picture of you') > > > Using model forms > > > Let say I want to upload picture named "æøå.jpg" > > > If I do that, I get the following error msg: > > 'ascii' codec can't encode characters in position 59-61: ordinal not > > in range(128) > > > Django ver 1.2 Alpha > > The full traceback instead of just the error message would help people help > you. Perhaps try > this:http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.2/howto/deployment/modpython/#if-y.... > Though that is in with the mod_python doc, it is not a mod_python specific > problem. In general, no matter what deployment environment, your environment > must be set to allow unicode to be passed to file functions, if you want to > be able to manipulate files that contain non-ASCII characters. > > Also, you should really update to a 1.2 release level. Why are you running > alpha? > > Karen > --http://tracey.org/kmt/ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-us...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en.
