Why ascii?
'ç'.decode('latin1','ignore')
On Dec 8, 10:45 pm, blackthorne <francisco....@gmail.com> wrote:
> not enough. It all comes down to this:>>> 'ç'.decode('ascii')
>
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
> UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position
> 0: ordinal not in range(128)
>
> this is a little bit better:>>> 'ç'.decode('ascii','ignore')
>
> u''
>
> (though information may be loss)
>
> So, just to make it work, I converted all to strings using this simple
> method:
> def clean_enc(item):
> return str(item.decode('ascii','ignore'))
>
> I don't want to dramatize this issue but I'm using the default mail
> mechanisms of web2py to mail and there was a loss of backward
> compatibility from my previous code (which is not the real problem for
> me in this case) and worse than that there were possible clients that
> may have been denied from establishing contact threw my form. I think
> we need to correct this so that this doesn't happen again.
>
> On Dec 9, 4:13 am, mdipierro <mdipie...@cs.depaul.edu> wrote:
>
> > message=msg.decode('latin1')
>
> > not
>
> > message=msg.encode('latin1')
>
> > are you sure?
>
> > On Dec 8, 10:04 pm, blackthorne <francisco....@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > also tried .encode('ascii','ignore') without luck
>
> > > On Dec 9, 3:44 am, mdipierro <mdipie...@cs.depaul.edu> wrote:
>
> > > > Try pass:
>
> > > > message=msg.decode('latin1')
>
> > > > On Dec 8, 8:51 pm, blackthorne <francisco....@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > > > Thank you for your answer.
> > > > > I keep having the same behavior, though.
>
> > > > > Do you have ideas?
>
> > > > > On Dec 9, 2:34 am, mdipierro <mdipie...@cs.depaul.edu> wrote:
>
> > > > > > actually the bug was in the previous version. You have to specify
> > > > > > the
> > > > > > encoding
>
> > > > > > return mail.send(to=
> > > > > > ['blacktho...@ironik.org','fernando.t.ribe...@gmail.com'],
> > > > > > subject=about,
> > > > > > message=msg, encoding='latin1')
>
> > > > > > On Dec 8, 7:05 pm, blackthorne <francisco....@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > > > > > hi
> > > > > > > there seems to be a bug a in the unicode process, probably in the
> > > > > > > mail
> > > > > > > () method on the most recent versions of web2py. I developed an
> > > > > > > application with a contact form that works on. When I got it into
> > > > > > > production, I tested it with the latest version of web2py and I
> > > > > > > got
> > > > > > > Internal Server Error with the message:
>
> > > > > > > UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in
> > > > > > > position
> > > > > > > 0: ordinal not in range(128)
>
> > > > > > > def email_user(sender,msg,about="group notice"):
> > > > > > > message='Reply-to: ' + sender + '\n ' + msg
> > > > > > > return mail.send(to=
> > > > > > > ['blacktho...@ironik.org','fernando.t.ribe...@gmail.com'],
> > > > > > > subject=about,
> > > > > > > message=msg)
>
> > > > > > > def contact():
> > > > > > > response.view = theme + '/contact.html'
> > > > > > > form=SQLFORM(db.mail,fields=
> > > > > > > ['your_name','your_email','your_message'])
> > > > > > > if form.accepts(request.vars,session,dbio=False):
> > > > > > > subject='casasdocastro.com: ' + form.vars.your_name
> > > > > > > sent = email_user(sender=form.vars.your_email,
> > > > > > > --> msg=form.vars.your_message,
> > > > > > > about=subject)
> > > > > > > if sent:
> > > > > > > response.flash=T('message_submitted')
> > > > > > > else:
> > > > > > > response.flash=T('message_failed')
> > > > > > > db.mail.insert(your_name=form.vars.your_name,
> > > > > > > your_email=form.vars.your_email,
> > > > > > > your_message=form.vars.your_message,
> > > > > > > sent=sent)
> > > > > > > elif form.errors:
> > > > > > > response.flash=T('check_contact_form')
> > > > > > > form.custom.submit['_value']=T('send_submit')
> > > > > > > return dict(form=form,
> > > > > > > news=getNews())
>
> > > > > > > Again, this code works fine in v1.67
>
> > > > > > > Thank, Best Regards
>
>
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