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

It is easy to get this kind of error when running service (E.g: gunicorn) from Upstart.

To fix that, set env in upstart file:

env LANG=en_US.UTF-8
env LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8
env LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8