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Franco A.

Hi,

I have Odoo installed from github on an Ubuntu 14.04 machine. Odoo starts at boot with a script that I copied from the /debian/init file.

I built a custom module that reads file names from a directory on the server and lists them. I checked all possible unicode naming problems there, I hope.

My problem is that when I first boot the machine, log into Odoo and go to where my module should display file names I get an error "UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position 3: ordinal not in range(128)"

That character is a non ascii one.

The strange thing is that if I stop odoo and then restart it the problem goes away and file names get read correctly.

Any help?

Thanks,

Frank

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Franco A.
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Solved by myself by adding a definition of the LANG variable to the init script:

case "${1}" in
        start)
                echo -n "Starting ${DESC}: "

                LANG="it_IT.UTF-8" start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --pidfile ${PIDFILE} \     ##!! Here I define a utf-8 locale
                        --chuid ${USER} --background --make-pidfile \
                        --exec ${DAEMON} -- ${DAEMON_OPTS}

                echo "${NAME}."
                ;;

 

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