This is great, Bryan, thank you.

Once we repair the garbage that resulted during import, this might enable 
us to have the preferred spellings in our database without issue. 

I shall report back once we've tested. I kept wondering how non-English 
installations manage.

Martha



On Tuesday, October 8, 2019 at 4:08:01 PM UTC-7, Bryan Alvey wrote:
>
> Hi Martha - 
>
> I'm not sure this will is what you are after, but if you are having 
> problems importiing/exporting non-ascii characters to/from Arches, this may 
> help. We uploaded a cyrillic data set by CSV successfully using this.
>
> https://github.com/archesproject/arches/issues/2831
>
>
> For those who have this issue on Apache2, here is what solved my problem:
>
>
> (
> https://code.djangoproject.com/wiki/django_apache_and_mod_wsgi#AdditionalTweaking
> )
>
>
> If you're taking advantage of the great Internationalization features of 
> Django you may come across a curious problem. Namely, uploading of 
> non-ascii filenames with the Django storage system with the default apache 
> settings on most systems will trigger UnicodeEncodeError exceptions when 
> calling functions like os.path(). To avoid these issues, ensure that the 
> following lines are included in your apache envvars file (typically found 
> in /etc/apache2/envvars).
>
>
> export LANG='en_US.UTF-8'
> export LC_ALL='en_US.UTF-8'
>
>
> This error likely wont rear its head during development on the test server 
> as, when run from the command line, the ./manage.py script inherits the 
> users language and locale settings.'
>
>
>
>
> Not sure this is what you want, but I thought it may help.
>
>
> Bryan
>
>
>
> On Saturday, 28 September 2019 01:13:59 UTC+1, Martha S wrote:
>>
>> I am trying to export all the data for a particular resource model to CSV 
>> for review and modification and ran into an error during the process -- 
>> UnicodeEncodeError: 
>> 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xa6' in position 51: ordinal not in 
>> range(128)
>>  
>> *My command*
>> python manage.py packages -o export_business_data -d 
>> '/hpladata/Projects/Downloads/Historic District Mapping Files' -f 'csv' 
>> -c '/hpladata/Projects/Downloads/Historic District Mapping 
>> Files/Historic District.mapping' 
>>
>> *Here's the full error dump*
>> operation: export_business_data
>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>>   File "manage.py", line 29, in <module>
>>     execute_from_command_line(sys.argv)
>>   File 
>> "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/django/core/management/__init__.py", 
>> line 364, in execute_from_command_line
>>     utility.execute()
>>   File 
>> "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/django/core/management/__init__.py", 
>> line 356, in execute
>>     self.fetch_command(subcommand).run_from_argv(self.argv)
>>   File 
>> "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/django/core/management/base.py", 
>> line 283, in run_from_argv
>>     self.execute(*args, **cmd_options)
>>   File 
>> "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/django/core/management/base.py", 
>> line 330, in execute
>>     output = self.handle(*args, **options)
>>   File "/Projects/prod/arches/arches/management/commands/packages.py", 
>> line 190, in handle
>>     self.export_business_data(options['dest_dir'], options['format'], 
>> options['config_file'], options['graphs'], options['single_file'])
>>   File "/Projects/prod/arches/arches/management/commands/packages.py", 
>> line 770, in export_business_data
>>     data = resource_exporter.export(graph_id=graph, 
>> resourceinstanceids=None)
>>   File 
>> "/Projects/prod/arches/arches/app/utils/data_management/resources/exporter.py",
>>  
>> line 37, in export
>>     resources = self.writer.write_resources(graph_id=graph_id, 
>> resourceinstanceids=resourceinstanceids)
>>   File 
>> "/Projects/prod/arches/arches/app/utils/data_management/resources/formats/csvfile.py",
>>  
>> line 194, in write_resources
>>     csvs_for_export = csvs_for_export + self.write_resource_relations(
>> file_name=self.file_name)
>>   File 
>> "/Projects/prod/arches/arches/app/utils/data_management/resources/formats/csvfile.py",
>>  
>> line 215, in write_resource_relations
>>     csvwriter.writerow({k:str(v) for k,v in relation.items()})
>>   File 
>> "/Projects/prod/arches/arches/app/utils/data_management/resources/formats/csvfile.py",
>>  
>> line 215, in <dictcomp>
>>     csvwriter.writerow({k:str(v) for k,v in relation.items()})
>> UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xa6' in 
>> position 51: ordinal not in range(128)
>>
>> Any suggestions?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Martha
>>
>

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