Re: UnicodeDecodeError when uploading files with non-ascii characters in filename

Thanks for the quick reply. I almost gave up, but I just found something that seems to work for me. So I've tried: --- filename = codecs.BOM_UTF8.decode(postfile['filename']) --- ...which gave a LookupError. Then I tried casting to Unicode: --- filename = unicode(postfile['filename']) --- ...whi

Re: UnicodeDecodeError when uploading files with non-ascii characters in filename

On Wed, 2008-11-26 at 06:20 -0800, gnijholt wrote: > Hello, > > I'm running Django r7548 using PostgreSQL 8.3 on Leopard. > The problem: When I upload a file with a filename like '.jpg', I > get the following error: > --- > UnicodeDecodeError at /library/documents/12114/addFile/ > 'ascii' c

UnicodeDecodeError when uploading files with non-ascii characters in filename

Hello, I'm running Django r7548 using PostgreSQL 8.3 on Leopard. The problem: When I upload a file with a filename like '.jpg', I get the following error: --- UnicodeDecodeError at /library/documents/12114/addFile/ 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position 1: ordinal not in range(128)