trac 1.6 error unknown encoding: utf8mb4

[pleo87508]

Hello,

I've struggled to move an old trac 1.2 wiki, ticket and repo browser from CentOs 7 to ubuntu 24.04.  

I have everything almost working now though.

I first had to move the subversion rep, now on 1.14.

Then I installed trac 1.6 and upgraded the database using trac-admin.

I think before I did that I recreated the db from a backup, but changed the character set and collation to 

DEFAULT CHARACTER SET utf8mb4 COLLATE utf8mb4_bin

I thought I read on the trac site that that needed to be done.

After the wiki and tickets seemed to be working, I used the admin interface to set up the repository browser.

All of that is working except when I drill down and click on the revision (changeset maybe) and or the file, I get the following error:

Trac detected an internal error:LookupError: unknown encoding: utf8mb4

onthe web browser.

Maybe I picked the wrong character set and colation?

If so what should it be

Am attaching a pdf of the output from the webpage.  I can also post the logs if that will help

Thanks in advance.

 

[Jun Omae]

If you've configured [trac] default_charset to "utf8mb4" in
$ENV/conf/trac.ini, that is incorrect and the root cause of the issue.
Change the option with "utf-8". Otherwise, I guess your trac.ini has
something wrong. Please share your trac.ini.

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Jun Omae <jun...@gmail.com> (大前 潤)

[pleo87508]

Thank you. That was the issue.  I set default_charset in trac.ini back to utf-8, and that issue has bee resolved.

I have one more question re: creating a hook for subversion to enable changeset updates.

Should I post another message to the group, or continue with this thread

Best,

Paul

[Jun Omae]

Firstly, see https://trac.edgewall.org/wiki/TracRepositoryAdmin#ExplicitSync
If you still have questions, please start a new thread.