Re: German Umlaut Problem on moin import (UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte)

> we heavily use the import feature of version 1.9.4.

Maybe have a look at the changelog of the latest version.

I remember I have looked at that problem in general, but I am not sure
whether I could fix / have fixed that in 1.9.x.

> Whenever I try to import a page with a German
> Umlaut in it's name, I get the following error message:
> 
> UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position 5: ordinal not in range(128)

It's non-trivial to find the console/commandline encoding in a
platform-independant way.

> Is there any other workaround available, besides importing the page with non umlaut characters (i.e.
> ue, oe, ae), renaming the page afterwards in the filesystem?

Instead of calling that script on the console, you could have some
python code that reads the pagenames from a file with known encoding and
proceeds similar as the code for the script command does.


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