From f0634ff164ba06382d9c97458a3d96e407f4dbee Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Philip Sargent Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2022 00:30:43 +0300 Subject: specify default encoding explicitly --- core/views/expo.py | 5 ++++- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'core/views/expo.py') 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("

","

BAD NON-UTF-8 characters here - ") html = html.replace("\\n","\n") + html = html.replace("\\r","") html = html.replace("\\t","\t") html = html.replace("\\'","\'") except: -- cgit v1.2.3