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-rw-r--r--core/views/expo.py5
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/core/views/expo.py b/core/views/expo.py
index 1fd01e5..441d4bc 100644
--- a/core/views/expo.py
+++ b/core/views/expo.py
@@ -126,13 +126,16 @@ def expowebpage(request, expowebpath, path):
return render(request, 'pagenotfound.html', {'path': path}, status="404")
try:
- with open(os.path.normpath(expowebpath / path), "r") as o:
+ with open(os.path.normpath(expowebpath / path), "r", encoding='utf-8') as o:
html = o.read()
except:
+ # exception raised on debian with python 3.9.2 but not on WSL Ubuntu with python 3.9.5
+ # because debian was assuming default text encoding was 'ascii'. Now specified explicitly so should be OK
try:
with open(os.path.normpath(expowebpath / path), "rb") as o:
html = str(o.read()).replace("<h1>","<h1>BAD NON-UTF-8 characters here - ")
html = html.replace("\\n","\n")
+ html = html.replace("\\r","")
html = html.replace("\\t","\t")
html = html.replace("\\'","\'")
except: