Non-ASCII filename uploaded by user crashed Django

[lvella]

I have a file field on a model editable by the admin interface. Today the tried to upload a file including the character 'ç', for what the server sent me the following message (possibly related with the fact I am using Python 3.4):

Traceback (most recent call last):

  File "/home/fidelidade/fidelidade/venv/lib/python3.4/site-packages/django/core/handlers/base.py", line 114, in get_response
    response = wrapped_callback(request, *callback_args, **callback_kwargs)

  File "/home/fidelidade/fidelidade/venv/lib/python3.4/site-packages/django/contrib/admin/options.py", line 430, in wrapper
    return self.admin_site.admin_view(view)(*args, **kwargs)

  File "/home/fidelidade/fidelidade/venv/lib/python3.4/site-packages/django/utils/decorators.py", line 99, in _wrapped_view
    response = view_func(request, *args, **kwargs)

  File "/home/fidelidade/fidelidade/venv/lib/python3.4/site-packages/django/views/decorators/cache.py", line 52, in _wrapped_view_func
    response = view_func(request, *args, **kwargs)

  File "/home/fidelidade/fidelidade/venv/lib/python3.4/site-packages/django/contrib/admin/sites.py", line 198, in inner
    return view(request, *args, **kwargs)

  File "/home/fidelidade/fidelidade/venv/lib/python3.4/site-packages/django/utils/decorators.py", line 29, in _wrapper
    return bound_func(*args, **kwargs)

  File "/home/fidelidade/fidelidade/venv/lib/python3.4/site-packages/django/utils/decorators.py", line 99, in _wrapped_view
    response = view_func(request, *args, **kwargs)

  File "/home/fidelidade/fidelidade/venv/lib/python3.4/site-packages/django/utils/decorators.py", line 25, in bound_func
    return func(self, *args2, **kwargs2)

  File "/home/fidelidade/fidelidade/venv/lib/python3.4/site-packages/django/db/transaction.py", line 339, in inner
    return func(*args, **kwargs)

  File "/home/fidelidade/fidelidade/venv/lib/python3.4/site-packages/django/contrib/admin/options.py", line 1228, in change_view
    self.save_model(request, new_object, form, True)

  File "/home/fidelidade/fidelidade/venv/lib/python3.4/site-packages/django/contrib/admin/options.py", line 858, in save_model
    obj.save()

  File "./company/models.py", line 53, in save
    super(Company, self).save(*args, **kwargs)

  File "/home/fidelidade/fidelidade/venv/lib/python3.4/site-packages/django/db/models/base.py", line 545, in save
    force_update=force_update, update_fields=update_fields)

  File "/home/fidelidade/fidelidade/venv/lib/python3.4/site-packages/django/db/models/base.py", line 573, in save_base
    updated = self._save_table(raw, cls, force_insert, force_update, using, update_fields)

  File "/home/fidelidade/fidelidade/venv/lib/python3.4/site-packages/django/db/models/base.py", line 632, in _save_table
    for f in non_pks]

  File "/home/fidelidade/fidelidade/venv/lib/python3.4/site-packages/django/db/models/base.py", line 632, in <listcomp>
    for f in non_pks]

  File "/home/fidelidade/fidelidade/venv/lib/python3.4/site-packages/django/db/models/fields/files.py", line 252, in pre_save
    file.save(file.name, file, save=False)

  File "/home/fidelidade/fidelidade/venv/lib/python3.4/site-packages/django/db/models/fields/files.py", line 86, in save
    self.name = self.storage.save(name, content)

  File "/home/fidelidade/fidelidade/venv/lib/python3.4/site-packages/django/core/files/storage.py", line 48, in save
    name = self.get_available_name(name)

  File "/home/fidelidade/fidelidade/venv/lib/python3.4/site-packages/django/core/files/storage.py", line 74, in get_available_name
    while self.exists(name):

  File "/home/fidelidade/fidelidade/venv/lib/python3.4/site-packages/django/core/files/storage.py", line 245, in exists
    return os.path.exists(self.path(name))

  File "/home/fidelidade/fidelidade/venv/lib/python3.4/genericpath.py", line 19, in exists
    os.stat(path)

UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character '\xe7' in position 48: ordinal not in range(128)

[Tim Graham]

I believe this a duplicate of #17686 and #9696.

[Aymeric Augustin]

It's ​https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/howto/deployment/wsgi/modwsgi/#if-you-get-a-unicodeencodeerror.