Opened 9 years ago

Closed 9 years ago

#26216 closed Bug (invalid)

UnicodeDecodeError during _create_attachment

Reported by: thomasysliu Owned by: nobody
Component: Core (Mail) Version: 1.9
Severity: Normal Keywords:
Cc: Triage Stage: Unreviewed
Has patch: no Needs documentation: no
Needs tests: no Patch needs improvement: no
Easy pickings: no UI/UX: no

Description

UnicodeDecodeError raised when the file name of the attachment have non 'ascii' characters.

  • Simple Code

    Code highlighting: 

    # -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
from django.core.mail import send_mail
from django.core.mail import EmailMessage
import os
from django.core.management.base import BaseCommand, CommandError

def test():
        filename = u'\u96fb\u5b50\u5b782.ics'
        email = EmailMessage("subject", "body", to=["xxx@this.is.an.email.addr"])
        email.attach(filename.encode('utf-8'), "TEST")
        email.send()


class Command(BaseCommand):
        args = ''
        help = 'Send mail'
        def handle(self, *args, **options):
                test()
  • Traceback 
    /tmp/test_email$ python2.7 manage.py test_sendemail
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "manage.py", line 10, in <module>
    execute_from_command_line(sys.argv)
  File "/opt/local/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/core/management/__init__.py", line 353, in execute_from_command_line
    utility.execute()
  File "/opt/local/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/core/management/__init__.py", line 345, in execute
    self.fetch_command(subcommand).run_from_argv(self.argv)
  File "/opt/local/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/core/management/base.py", line 348, in run_from_argv
    self.execute(*args, **cmd_options)
  File "/opt/local/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/core/management/base.py", line 399, in execute
    output = self.handle(*args, **options)
  File "/private/tmp/test_email/test_email/management/commands/test_sendemail.py", line 18, in handle
    test()
  File "/private/tmp/test_email/test_email/management/commands/test_sendemail.py", line 11, in test
    email.send()
  File "/opt/local/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/core/mail/message.py", line 292, in send
    return self.get_connection(fail_silently).send_messages([self])
  File "/opt/local/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/core/mail/backends/smtp.py", line 107, in send_messages
    sent = self._send(message)
  File "/opt/local/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/core/mail/backends/smtp.py", line 121, in _send
    message = email_message.message()
  File "/opt/local/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/core/mail/message.py", line 256, in message
    msg = self._create_message(msg)
  File "/opt/local/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/core/mail/message.py", line 344, in _create_message
    return self._create_attachments(msg)
  File "/opt/local/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/core/mail/message.py", line 357, in _create_attachments
    msg.attach(self._create_attachment(*attachment))
  File "/opt/local/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/core/mail/message.py", line 402, in _create_attachment
    filename.encode('ascii')
UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xe9 in position 0: ordinal not in range(128)

Change History (2)

comment:1 by Tim Graham, 9 years ago

Looks like if you omit the .encode('utf-8') before passing the filename to attach(), Django will ​take care of that for you. Did you try it?

in reply to:  1 comment:2 by thomasysliu, 9 years ago

Resolution: → invalid
Status: new → closed

Replying to timgraham:

Looks like if you omit the .encode('utf-8') before passing the filename to attach(), Django will ​take care of that for you. Did you try it?

Yes. Django will no that for me.

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