Python os.stat and unicode file names

Question

In my Django application, a user has uploaded a file with a unicode character in the name.

When I\'m downloading files, I\'m calling :

os.path.exists         


        

Answer 1

Change your http server to use UTF-8 locale. For example, I use apache2 on CentOS. I changed /etc/sysconfig/httpd locale setting by HTTPD_LANG:

# CentOS use /etc/sysconfig/httpd to config environment variables.
#
# By default, the httpd process is started in the C locale; to
# change the locale in which the server runs, the HTTPD_LANG
# variable can be set.
#
# HTTPD_LANG=C
HTTPD_LANG=en_US.UTF-8  # you can change to your locale.