id summary reporter owner description type status component version severity resolution keywords cc stage has_patch needs_docs needs_tests needs_better_patch easy ui_ux 28390 """Fixing UnicodeEncodeError for file uploads"" instructions don't work on CentOS 7" Francesco Bartoli nobody "From [https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.8/howto/deployment/wsgi/modwsgi/] the suggested hints within ""Fixing UnicodeEncodeError for file uploads"" don't overcome the issue with UnicodeEncodeError on CentOS 7. Configuration is: {{{ [OS] CentOS Linux release 7.3.1611 (Core) [Apache] Name : httpd Arch : x86_64 Version : 2.4.6 Release : 45.el7.centos.4 [Mod_wsgi] Name : mod_wsgi Arch : x86_64 Version : 3.4 Release : 12.el7_0 }}} Setting those variables into /etc/sysconfig/httpd {{{ export LANG=""en_US.UTF-8"" export LC_ALL=""en_US.UTF-8"" }}} doesn't affect the result of {{{ import sys sys.getdefaultencoding() 'ascii' }}} and the traceback is {{{ Traceback: File ""/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/core/handlers/base.py"" in get_response 132. response = wrapped_callback(request, *callback_args, **callback_kwargs) File ""/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/contrib/auth/decorators.py"" in _wrapped_view 22. return view_func(request, *args, **kwargs) File ""/home/geonode/geonode/geonode/layers/views.py"" in layer_upload 174. out['errors'] = str(error) Exception Type: UnicodeEncodeError at /layers/upload Exception Value: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xe8' in position 3: ordinal not in range(128) Request information: GET: No GET data POST: charset = u'UTF-8' }}}" Bug closed Documentation 1.8 Normal needsinfo Unreviewed 0 0 0 0 0 0