[Zope-dev] Re: Showstopper UnicodeDecodeError on Zope import???

[Nick Bower]

I should mention that I've tried this on various combinations of python 
2.3.3/2.3.4 and zope 2.7.0/2.7.2.

Nick Bower wrote:
> I'm trying to import a zexp export (a Plone site actually) from a 
> windows workstation to a zope server I built on Linux RH9 but it fails 
> with a UnicodeDecodeError:
> 
> ...
> Module Products.ZCTextIndex.Lexicon, line 69, in sourceToWordIds
> Module Products.ZCTextIndex.Lexicon, line 135, in _getWordIdCreate
> 
> UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xef in position 5: 
> orginal not in range(128).
> 
> What is confusing is that the zexp *will* import to another linux zope 
> build I have (on Mdk10) and sys.getdefaultencoding() and 
> locale.getdefaultlocale() on the 2 linux machines are almost the same 
> (the working one reports "en_GB, utf"/ascii and the non-working one 
> reports "en_US, utf"/ascii), so I think this is a red herring.  I can't 
> for the life of me work out what is going wrong as I built python myself 
> on both Linux machines exactly the same.
> 
> Can anyone help me please???
> 
> Thanks, Nick
> 
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