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    <p>perhaps not helpful, but would it not be easier to load the shape
      in QGIS and save it as a new dataset with another encoding there?</p>
    <p>..just wondering,<br>
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    <p>stefan<br>
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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 07/12/2017 04:34 PM, Francesco
      Bartoli wrote:<br>
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      <div style="max-width: 100%; font-family: Nylas-Pro, Helvetica,
        "Lucidia Grande", sans-serif; font-size: 14.5px;">I'm
        facing a common error while uploading an archived shapefile. The
        file is the commonly used ne_50m_admin_0_countries.</div>
      <div style="max-width: 100%; font-family: Nylas-Pro, Helvetica,
        "Lucidia Grande", sans-serif; font-size: 14.5px;">The
        error is well known also in django documentation and due to non
        ascii characters:</div>
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        "Lucidia Grande", sans-serif; font-size: 14.5px;"><a
href="https://n1.nylas.com/link/df895d51a877f962a1d28456afd3ff6a2ad03f057079e07181a3bc641bd29713/0?redirect=https%3A%2F%2Fdocs.djangoproject.com%2Fen%2F1.8%2Fref%2Funicode%2F%23files"
title="https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.8/ref/unicode/#files"
          style="color: rgb(16, 129, 247);" moz-do-not-send="true">https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.8/ref/unicode/#files</a><br>
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        "Lucidia Grande", sans-serif; font-size: 14.5px;">
        <div style="max-width: 100%;">Unfortunately the recommended
          solution from the django docs for deployments with apache and
          mod_wsgi </div>
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        <div style="max-width: 100%;"><a
href="https://n1.nylas.com/link/df895d51a877f962a1d28456afd3ff6a2ad03f057079e07181a3bc641bd29713/1?redirect=https%3A%2F%2Fdocs.djangoproject.com%2Fen%2F1.8%2Fhowto%2Fdeployment%2Fwsgi%2Fmodwsgi%2F"
title="https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.8/howto/deployment/wsgi/modwsgi/"
            style="color: rgb(16, 129, 247);" moz-do-not-send="true">https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.8/howto/deployment/wsgi/modwsgi/</a></div>
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        </div>
        <div style="max-width: 100%;">doesn't solve the issue in centos
          7. The box has been created while reviewing the installation
          on that environment as per this PR <a
href="https://n1.nylas.com/link/df895d51a877f962a1d28456afd3ff6a2ad03f057079e07181a3bc641bd29713/2?redirect=https%3A%2F%2Fgithub.com%2FGeoNode%2Fgeonode%2Fpull%2F3168"
            title="https://github.com/GeoNode/geonode/pull/3168"
            style="color: rgb(16, 129, 247);" moz-do-not-send="true">https://github.com/GeoNode/geonode/pull/3168</a><br>
        </div>
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        </div>
        <div style="max-width: 100%;">
          <div style="max-width: 100%;">It can be easily reproduced by
            adding this view and route within geonode app:</div>
          <div style="max-width: 100%;"><br>
          </div>
          <div style="max-width: 100%;">#my_views.py</div>
          <div style="max-width: 100%;">import locale<br>
            import sys<br>
            from django.http import HttpResponse<br>
            <br>
            def view_locale(request):<br>
               loc_info = "getlocale: " + str(locale.getlocale()) + \<br>
                   "<br/>getdefaultlocale(): " +
            str(locale.getdefaultlocale()) + \<br>
                   "<br/>fs_encoding: " +
            str(sys.getfilesystemencoding()) + \<br>
                   "<br/>sys default encoding: " +
            str(sys.getdefaultencoding())<br>
               return HttpResponse(loc_info)<br>
          </div>
          <div style="max-width: 100%;"><br>
          </div>
          <div style="max-width: 100%;">#urls.py</div>
          <div style="max-width: 100%;">...</div>
          <div style="max-width: 100%;">url(r'^locale/$',
            'geonode.my_views.view_locale'),<br>
          </div>
          <div style="max-width: 100%;">...</div>
          <div style="max-width: 100%;"><br>
          </div>
          <div style="max-width: 100%;">Result is always this:</div>
          <div style="max-width: 100%;">getlocale: (None, None)<br
              style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Times; font-size:
              medium;">
            getdefaultlocale(): ('en_US', 'UTF-8')<br style="color:
              rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Times; font-size: medium;">
            fs_encoding: UTF-8<br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);
              font-family: Times; font-size: medium;">
            <span style="font-weight: 600;">sys default encoding: ascii</span><br>
          </div>
          <div style="max-width: 100%;"><br>
          </div>
          <div style="max-width: 100%;">Setting the following variables
            in /etc/sysconfig/httpd and restart as suggested</div>
          <div style="max-width: 100%;"><br>
          </div>
          <div style="max-width: 100%;">export LANG="en_US.UTF-8"<br>
            export LC_ALL="en_US.UTF-8"<br>
          </div>
          <div style="max-width: 100%;"><br>
          </div>
          <div style="max-width: 100%;">does not change anything in
            particular the system default encoding which is the reason
            why the upload is failing.</div>
          <div style="max-width: 100%;"><br>
          </div>
          <div style="max-width: 100%;">Adding such variables to
            WSGIDaemonProcess:</div>
          <div style="max-width: 100%;"><br>
          </div>
          <div style="max-width: 100%;">WSGIDaemonProcess geonode
            lang='en_US.UTF-8' locale='en_US.UTF-8'
python-path=/home/geonode/geonode:/home/geonode/.venvs/geonode/lib/python2.7/site-packages
            user=apache threads=15 processes=2</div>
          <div style="max-width: 100%;"><br>
          </div>
          <div style="max-width: 100%;">just affects the getlocale()
            function while default encoding is unaltered. The only way
            to affect it would be to add and enforce it:</div>
          <div style="max-width: 100%;"><br>
          </div>
          <div style="max-width: 100%;">import sys</div>
          <div style="max-width: 100%;">reload(sys)<br>
            <a
href="https://n1.nylas.com/link/df895d51a877f962a1d28456afd3ff6a2ad03f057079e07181a3bc641bd29713/3?redirect=sys.setdefaultencoding%28%27utf-8"
              title="sys.setdefaultencoding('utf-8" style="color:
              rgb(16, 129, 247);" moz-do-not-send="true">sys.setdefaultencoding('utf-8</a>')<br>
          </div>
          <div style="max-width: 100%;"><br>
          </div>
          <div style="max-width: 100%;">but this is strongly not
            recommended and discouraged. More here <a
href="https://n1.nylas.com/link/df895d51a877f962a1d28456afd3ff6a2ad03f057079e07181a3bc641bd29713/4?redirect=https%3A%2F%2Fanonbadger.wordpress.com%2F2015%2F06%2F16%2Fwhy-sys-setdefaultencoding-will-break-code%2F"
title="https://anonbadger.wordpress.com/2015/06/16/why-sys-setdefaultencoding-will-break-code/"
              style="color: rgb(16, 129, 247);" moz-do-not-send="true">https://anonbadger.wordpress.com/2015/06/16/why-sys-setdefaultencoding-will-break-code/</a>.</div>
          <div style="max-width: 100%;"><br>
          </div>
          <div style="max-width: 100%;">Did anyone already encounter
            this kind of error? Actually I don't have a solution but for
            sure it's not a bug in geonode code base despite I did not
            figure out the real source.</div>
          <div style="max-width: 100%;"><br>
          </div>
          <div style="max-width: 100%;">Any help and idea, how to
            overcome it, is welcome :)</div>
          <div style="max-width: 100%;"><br>
          </div>
          <div style="max-width: 100%;">thx</div>
          <div style="max-width: 100%;">Francesco</div>
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