Merge pull request #3554 from lonvia/postcode-bbox

[nominatim.git] / docs / admin / Faq.md

diff --git a/docs/admin/Faq.md b/docs/admin/Faq.md
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@@ -37,40 +37,6 @@ nominatim import --continue indexing
 Otherwise it's best to start the full setup from the beginning.
 
 
-### PHP "open_basedir restriction in effect" warnings
-
-    PHP Warning:  file_get_contents(): open_basedir restriction in effect.
-
-You need to adjust the
-[open_basedir](https://www.php.net/manual/en/ini.core.php#ini.open-basedir)
-setting in your PHP configuration (`php.ini` file). By default this setting may
-look like this:
-
-    open_basedir = /srv/http/:/home/:/tmp/:/usr/share/pear/
-
-Either add reported directories to the list or disable this setting temporarily
-by adding ";" at the beginning of the line. Don't forget to enable this setting
-again once you are done with the PHP command line operations.
-
-
-### PHP timezeone warnings
-
-The Apache log may contain lots of PHP warnings like this:
-    `PHP Warning:  date_default_timezone_set() function.`
-
-You should set the default time zone as instructed in the warning in
-your `php.ini` file. Find the entry about timezone and set it to
-something like this:
-
-    ; Defines the default timezone used by the date functions
-    ; https://php.net/date.timezone
-    date.timezone = 'America/Denver'
-
-Or
-
-```
-echo "date.timezone = 'America/Denver'" > /etc/php.d/timezone.ini
-```
 
 ### nominatim.so version mismatch
 
@@ -170,12 +136,31 @@ recreate `nominatim.so`. Try
    cmake $main_Nominatim_path && make
 ```
 
-### Setup.php fails with "DB Error: extension not found"
+### Setup fails with "DB Error: extension not found"
 
 Make sure you have the PostgreSQL extensions "hstore" and "postgis" installed.
 See the installation instructions for a full list of required packages.
 
 
+### UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character
+
+Make sure that the operating system's locale is UTF-8. With some prebuilt
+images (e.g. LXC containers from Proxmox, see
+[discussion](https://github.com/osm-search/Nominatim/discussions/2343)) or
+images that optimize for size it might be missing.
+
+On Ubuntu you can check the locale is installed:
+
+```
+   grep UTF-8 /etc/default/locale
+```
+
+And install it using
+
+```
+   dpkg-reconfigure locales
+```
+
 ### I forgot to delete the flatnodes file before starting an import.
 
 That's fine. For each import the flatnodes file get overwritten.