I researched this problem before. The problem I found is that Python strings are not Unicode by default. You have to do something to make them Unicode. Here are the links I found:
http://www.reportlab.com/i18n/python_unicode_tutorial.html http://evanjones.ca/python-utf8.html http://jjinux.blogspot.com/2006/04/python-protecting-utf-8-strings-from.html We do the utf-8 encode&submit and so our strings are badly encoded and stored. We are seeing the problem shown in "Marc-Andre Lemburg" in the reportlab.com link: an e-forward-accent becomes some Japanese character. -----Original Message----- From: news [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Christian Klinger Sent: Thursday, September 06, 2007 2:55 AM To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org Subject: solr.py problems with german "Umlaute" Hi all, i try to add/update documents with the python solr.py api. Everything works fine so far but if i try to add a documents which contain German Umlaute (ö,ä,ü, ...) i got errors. Maybe someone has an idea how i could convert my data? Should i post this to JIRA? Thanks for help. Btw: I have no sitecustomize.py . This is my script: ------------------------------------------------------ from solr import * title="Übersicht" kw = {'id':'12','title':title,'system':'plone','url':'http://www.google.de'} c = SolrConnection('http://192.168.2.13:8080/solr') c.add_many([kw,]) c.commit() ------------------------------------------------------ This is the error: File "t.py", line 5, in ? c.add_many([kw,]) File "/usr/local/lib/python2.4/site-packages/solr.py", line 596, in add_many self.__add(lst, doc) File "/usr/local/lib/python2.4/site-packages/solr.py", line 710, in __add lst.append('<field name=%s>%s</field>' % ( UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position 0: ordinal not in range(128)
