From 04a3f39371099bbe25536c914809595378aa8533 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: marc tobias Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2024 18:26:11 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Admin FAQ entry for UnicodeEncodeError --- docs/admin/Faq.md | 19 +++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 19 insertions(+) diff --git a/docs/admin/Faq.md b/docs/admin/Faq.md index 7730c6c5..efcd5741 100644 --- a/docs/admin/Faq.md +++ b/docs/admin/Faq.md @@ -142,6 +142,25 @@ 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. -- 2.39.5