> the template is rendered correctly, but when passing it to the
> message, i receive encoding errors.
> UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position
> 67: ordinal not in range(128).

> > the template is rendered correctly, but when passing it to the
> > message, i receive encoding errors.
> > UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position
> > 67: ordinal not in range(128).

> once I have had the same error-message (working with an utf-8 encoded
> database)

> it was solved by creating the file
>     /usr/lib64/python2.4/site-packages/sitecustomize.py
> containing the two following lines :
>    import sys
>    sys.setdefaultencoding("utf-8")

> but this can disturb your non utf-8 python-scripts

> happy pythoning

> Herbert

> > the template is rendered correctly, but when passing it to the
> > message, i receive encoding errors.
> > UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position
> > 67: ordinal not in range(128).

> once I have had the same error-message (working with an utf-8 encoded
> database)

> it was solved by creating the file
>     /usr/lib64/python2.4/site-packages/sitecustomize.py
> containing the two following lines :
>    import sys
>    sys.setdefaultencoding("utf-8")

> but this can disturb your non utf-8 python-scripts

> Hello Group,

> i am trying to set up some scheduled tasks which will have to send
> emails.

> the email-content is to be rendered by kid and then passed to an
> instance of TurboMail.Message

> the template is rendered correctly, but when passing it to the
> message, i receive encoding errors.
> UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position
> 67: ordinal not in range(128).

> what can i do about that? i think i´m using the latest version of
> turbomail 2.0.3

> On Wednesday 02 May 2007 13:51, Johnny Blonde wrote:

> > Hello Group,

> > i am trying to set up some scheduled tasks which will have to send
> > emails.

> > the email-content is to be rendered by kid and then passed to an
> > instance of TurboMail.Message

> > the template is rendered correctly, but when passing it to the
> > message, i receive encoding errors.
> > UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position
> > 67: ordinal not in range(128).

> > what can i do about that? i think i´m using the latest version of
> > turbomail 2.0.3

> Showing us the code would help. I'm sending utf-8-encoded emails just fine
> using TurboMail & don't have to tweak the systems default encoding.

> Diez

> this is actually the code:
> http://paste.turbogears.org/paste/1256

> nothing special i think...?

> On Friday 04 May 2007 12:45, Johnny Blonde wrote:

> > this is actually the code:
> >http://paste.turbogears.org/paste/1256

> > nothing special i think...?

> Well, apart from you not passing the subject and the rendered not as
> unicode-objects, but as byte-strings of course.

> Which will result in the byte-string being encoded to a unicode object with
> the standard encoding - ascii.

> And of course that fails.

> I do it like this:

> message.rich = unicode(kid_engine.render(params,
> template='varms.templates.sales.groupvisits_email'), 'utf-8')

> Diez