Have created issue: http://code.google.com/p/modwsgi/issues/detail?id=251
Graham On 22 November 2011 23:46, Marc <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > > It has taken me about 1 day to find out the cause of a Django > application working fine with the embedded server and not with > mod_wsgi: > > I have an application that uses os.listdir(u'some path') that should > return a list of unicode strings. > > This works fine as long as I use the manage.py runserver server. > > As soon as I deploy on Apache with mod_wsgi, I get the dreaded Caught > UnicodeDecodeError while rendering: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte > 0xc3 in position 15: ordinal not in range(128) for the same piece of > code. > > I discovered that the problem is that the os.listdir() does not return > unicode but byte strings although the requested path is unicode. > > I found out that print(sys.getfilesystemencoding()) at the console > prompt produces > 'UTF-8' whereas in the failing script ' ANSI_X3.4-1968' (viz ASCII). I > now > understand why the conversion fails (in that case Python returns a > byte string and this is not documented in Python doc). > > Following the Python doc regarding sys.getfilesystemencoding() which > says the value is > from nl_langinfo(CODESET). man nl_langinfo says that this value is > related > to LC_CTYPE. So I tried to export LC_TYPE in /usr/sbin/envvars (Apache > file) without success. > > In fact the only required variable for getfilesystemencoding to > return the proper encoding is to set export > LC_LANG="fr_FR.UTF-8" (LC_CTYPE="fr_FR.UTF-8" did not work). > > Please I would advise to stress on that point in the config section of > mod_wsgi documentation. > > Thanks > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "modwsgi" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/modwsgi?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "modwsgi" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/modwsgi?hl=en.
