Getting unicode errors in my ancient python cgi site, "'ascii' codec can't encode character '\xf1' in position 1349: ordinal not in range(128)". After googling I found several suggestions for setting things in .htaccess, but nothing is working. There are also suggestions that say you have to modify some LANG setting in the apache config, which I don't think I have access to for a simple cgi site.

Anyway, just curious if anyone aware of a solution. In the meantime I'm just stripping non-ascii chars from my response.

  • sean replied to this.

    cstrombe if it's normal to have non-ASCII characters in your response, then you should declare the required character encoding in your script header, just below the shebang like so (using utf8 as an example):

    #!/bin/python2
# coding=utf8

      Thanks for the suggestion, but it didn't seem to help. I'm using python3 btw also, if that makes a difference.

      • nick replied to this.

        cstrombe As far as I know, Python 3 uses UTF-8 encoding by default. Maybe you can try declaring the content type and character set in your HTTP response header, or explicitly encoding your string in UTF-8 before sending it. Opening a support ticket with details about your script, etc, would be another way we may be able to offer more help.

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