UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character

Question

When uploading files with non-ASCII characters I get UnicodeEncodeError:

Exception Type: UnicodeEncodeError at /admin/studio/newsitem/add/
Exception Value: \         


        

Answer 1

Hope this would help. In my case, I'm running django through daemontools.

Setting

export LANG='en_US.UTF-8'
export LC_ALL='en_US.UTF-8'

in run script before executing manage.py resolved the issue with uploads filename