TurboMail and unicode problem

[Johnny Blonde]

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

Regards,
Frank

[dmhwsm]

> 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

[Johnny Blonde]

thanks - that solved it... i hope all other scripts that are run on
this server are utf-8 too...

[Diez B. Roggisch]

Because of this it's a really bad advice. Don't do that!

Diez

[Diez B. Roggisch]

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

[Johnny Blonde]

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

nothing special i think...?

On 4 Mai, 10:56, "Diez B. Roggisch" <diez.roggi...@artnology.com>
wrote:

[Diez B. Roggisch]

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

[Johnny Blonde]

thanks a lot diez,

that works perfectly.

Frank

On 4 Mai, 14:07, "Diez B. Roggisch" <diez.roggi...@artnology.com>
wrote: