UnicodeEncodeError at /events/signup/1006/

'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xf6' in position 210: ordinal not in range(128)
Request Method: POST
Request URL: http://uwcs.co.uk/events/signup/1006/
Exception Type: UnicodeEncodeError
Exception Value:
'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xf6' in position 210: ordinal not in range(128)
Exception Location: /home/webmaster/reinhardt/compsoc/../compsoc/events/__init__.py in write_file_callback, line 30
Python Executable: /usr/bin/python
Python Version: 2.5.2
Python Path: ['/usr/lib/python2.5', '/usr/lib/python2.5/plat-linux2', '/usr/lib/python2.5/lib-tk', '/usr/lib/python2.5/lib-dynload', '/usr/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages', '/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages', '/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/Numeric', '/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/PIL', '/var/lib/python-support/python2.5', '/var/lib/python-support/python2.5/gtk-2.0', '/home/webmaster/reinhardt']
Server time: Wed, 29 Apr 2009 00:48:51 +0100

Unicode error hint

The string that could not be encoded/decoded was: yx, Töasty,

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Request information

GET

No GET data

POST

Variable Value
comment
u'...'
Variable Value
sessionid
'768dc94d286f7685b04ac2d890b1c4f5'

META

Variable Value
CONTENT_LENGTH
'11'
CONTENT_TYPE
'application/x-www-form-urlencoded'
DOCUMENT_ROOT
'/var/www'
GATEWAY_INTERFACE
'CGI/1.1'
HTTP_ACCEPT
'text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8'
HTTP_ACCEPT_CHARSET
'ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7'
HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING
'gzip,deflate'
HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE
'en-gb,en;q=0.5'
HTTP_CACHE_CONTROL
'max-age=0'
HTTP_CONNECTION
'keep-alive'
HTTP_COOKIE
'sessionid=768dc94d286f7685b04ac2d890b1c4f5'
HTTP_HOST
'uwcs.co.uk'
HTTP_KEEP_ALIVE
'300'
HTTP_REFERER
'http://uwcs.co.uk/events/details/1006/'
HTTP_USER_AGENT
'Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en; rv:1.9.0.8) Gecko/20080528 Epiphany/2.22'
PATH
'/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin'
PATH_INFO
u'/events/signup/1006/'
PATH_TRANSLATED
'/home/webmaster/reinhardt/compsoc/apache/compsoc.wsgi/events/signup/1006/'
QUERY_STRING
''
REMOTE_ADDR
'89.240.165.67'
REMOTE_PORT
'46209'
REQUEST_METHOD
'POST'
REQUEST_URI
'/events/signup/1006/'
SCRIPT_FILENAME
'/home/webmaster/reinhardt/compsoc/apache/compsoc.wsgi'
SCRIPT_NAME
u''
SCRIPT_URI
'http://uwcs.co.uk/events/signup/1006/'
SCRIPT_URL
'/events/signup/1006/'
SERVER_ADDR
'137.205.210.240'
SERVER_ADMIN
'techteam@warwickcompsoc.co.uk'
SERVER_NAME
'uwcs.co.uk'
SERVER_PORT
'80'
SERVER_PROTOCOL
'HTTP/1.1'
SERVER_SIGNATURE
'<address>Apache/2.2.9 (Debian) DAV/2 SVN/1.5.1 mod_ssl/2.2.9 OpenSSL/0.9.8g mod_jk/1.2.26 PHP/5.2.6-1+lenny2 with Suhosin-Patch mod_python/3.3.1 Python/2.5.2 mod_wsgi/2.3 Server at uwcs.co.uk Port 80</address>\n'
SERVER_SOFTWARE
'Apache/2.2.9 (Debian) DAV/2 SVN/1.5.1 mod_ssl/2.2.9 OpenSSL/0.9.8g mod_jk/1.2.26 PHP/5.2.6-1+lenny2 with Suhosin-Patch mod_python/3.3.1 Python/2.5.2 mod_wsgi/2.3'
UNIQUE_ID
'SfeV438AAQEAADsvQbAAAAAE'
mod_wsgi.application_group
'www.warwickcompsoc.co.uk|'
mod_wsgi.callable_object
'application'
mod_wsgi.listener_host
''
mod_wsgi.listener_port
'80'
mod_wsgi.process_group
'site-1'
mod_wsgi.reload_mechanism
'1'
mod_wsgi.script_reloading
'1'
wsgi.errors
<mod_wsgi.Log object at 0x369c1e0>
wsgi.file_wrapper
<built-in method file_wrapper of mod_wsgi.Adapter object at 0x3970990>
wsgi.input
<mod_wsgi.Input object at 0x38c6ab0>
wsgi.multiprocess
False
wsgi.multithread
True
wsgi.run_once
False
wsgi.url_scheme
'http'
wsgi.version
(1, 0)

Settings

Using settings module compsoc.settings

Setting Value
ABSOLUTE_URL_OVERRIDES
{}
ADMINS
(('Richard Warburton', 'webmaster@uwcs.co.uk'),)
ADMIN_FOR
()
ADMIN_MEDIA_PREFIX
'/media/'
ALLOWED_INCLUDE_ROOTS
()
APPEND_SLASH
True
AUTHENTICATION_BACKENDS
('django.contrib.auth.backends.ModelBackend',)
BANNED_IPS
()
BASE_QUOTA
1000
CACHE_BACKEND
'locmem://'
CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_KEY_PREFIX
''
CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_SECONDS
600
CHOOB_FILE
'/home/webmaster/reinhardt/compsoc/static/content/choob.data'
COMMENTS_ALLOW_PROFANITIES
False
COMMENTS_BANNED_USERS_GROUP
None
COMMENTS_FIRST_FEW
0
COMMENTS_MODERATORS_GROUP
None
COMMENTS_SKETCHY_USERS_GROUP
None
COMPSOC_EXEC_EMAIL
'compsoc-exec@warwickcompsoc.co.uk'
COMPSOC_TECHTEAM_EMAIL
'compsoc-techteam@warwickcompsoc.co.uk'
COMPSOC_TREASURER_EMAIL
'treasurer@warwickcompsoc.co.uk'
DATABASE_ENGINE
'mysql'
DATABASE_HOST
''
DATABASE_NAME
'reinhardt'
DATABASE_OPTIONS
{}
DATABASE_PASSWORD
'********************'
DATABASE_PORT
''
DATABASE_USER
'webmaster'
DATETIME_FORMAT
'N j, Y, P'
DATE_FORMAT
'N j, Y'
DATE_FORMAT_STRING
'%a, %d %b %Y %H:%M'
DEBUG
True
DEBUG_PROPAGATE_EXCEPTIONS
False
DEFAULT_CHARSET
'utf-8'
DEFAULT_CONTENT_TYPE
'text/html'
DEFAULT_FILE_STORAGE
'django.core.files.storage.FileSystemStorage'
DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL
'webmaster@localhost'
DEFAULT_INDEX_TABLESPACE
''
DEFAULT_TABLESPACE
''
DISALLOWED_USER_AGENTS
()
EMAIL_HOST
'localhost'
EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD
'********************'
EMAIL_HOST_USER
''
EMAIL_PORT
25
EMAIL_SUBJECT_PREFIX
'[Django] '
EMAIL_USE_TLS
False
FILE_CHARSET
'utf-8'
FILE_UPLOAD_HANDLERS
('django.core.files.uploadhandler.MemoryFileUploadHandler', 'django.core.files.uploadhandler.TemporaryFileUploadHandler')
FILE_UPLOAD_MAX_MEMORY_SIZE
2621440
FILE_UPLOAD_PERMISSIONS
None
FILE_UPLOAD_TEMP_DIR
None
FIXTURE_DIRS
()
FORCE_SCRIPT_NAME
None
IGNORABLE_404_ENDS
('mail.pl', 'mailform.pl', 'mail.cgi', 'mailform.cgi', 'favicon.ico', '.php')
IGNORABLE_404_STARTS
('/cgi-bin/', '/_vti_bin', '/_vti_inf')
INSTALLED_APPS
['django.contrib.auth', 'django.contrib.contenttypes', 'django.contrib.sessions', 'django.contrib.sites', 'django.contrib.admin', 'django.contrib.markup', 'compsoc.cms', 'compsoc.comms', 'compsoc.events', 'compsoc.memberinfo', 'compsoc.search', 'compsoc.tracker', 'compsoc.choob']
INTERNAL_IPS
()
JING_PATH
'/usr/bin/jing'
LANGUAGES
(('ar', 'Arabic'), ('bn', 'Bengali'), ('bg', 'Bulgarian'), ('ca', 'Catalan'), ('cs', 'Czech'), ('cy', 'Welsh'), ('da', 'Danish'), ('de', 'German'), ('el', 'Greek'), ('en', 'English'), ('es', 'Spanish'), ('et', 'Estonian'), ('es-ar', 'Argentinean Spanish'), ('eu', 'Basque'), ('fa', 'Persian'), ('fi', 'Finnish'), ('fr', 'French'), ('ga', 'Irish'), ('gl', 'Galician'), ('hu', 'Hungarian'), ('he', 'Hebrew'), ('hi', 'Hindi'), ('hr', 'Croatian'), ('is', 'Icelandic'), ('it', 'Italian'), ('ja', 'Japanese'), ('ka', 'Georgian'), ('ko', 'Korean'), ('km', 'Khmer'), ('kn', 'Kannada'), ('lv', 'Latvian'), ('lt', 'Lithuanian'), ('mk', 'Macedonian'), ('nl', 'Dutch'), ('no', 'Norwegian'), ('pl', 'Polish'), ('pt', 'Portuguese'), ('pt-br', 'Brazilian Portuguese'), ('ro', 'Romanian'), ('ru', 'Russian'), ('sk', 'Slovak'), ('sl', 'Slovenian'), ('sr', 'Serbian'), ('sv', 'Swedish'), ('ta', 'Tamil'), ('te', 'Telugu'), ('th', 'Thai'), ('tr', 'Turkish'), ('uk', 'Ukrainian'), ('zh-cn', 'Simplified Chinese'), ('zh-tw', 'Traditional Chinese'))
LANGUAGES_BIDI
('he', 'ar', 'fa')
LANGUAGE_CODE
'en-us'
LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME
'django_language'
LEGACY_SITE
True
LOCALE_PATHS
()
LOGIN_REDIRECT_URL
'/accounts/profile/'
LOGIN_URL
'/login/'
LOGOUT_URL
'/logout/'
MANAGERS
(('Richard Warburton', 'webmaster@uwcs.co.uk'),)
MEDIA_ROOT
'/home/webmaster/reinhardt/compsoc/static/'
MEDIA_URL
'/static/'
MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES
('django.middleware.common.CommonMiddleware', 'django.contrib.sessions.middleware.SessionMiddleware', 'django.contrib.auth.middleware.AuthenticationMiddleware')
MONTH_DAY_FORMAT
'F j'
PASSWORD_RESET_TIMEOUT_DAYS
'********************'
PREPEND_WWW
False
PROFANITIES_LIST
'********************'
QUOTA_INC
1000
ROOT_URLCONF
'compsoc.urls'
SAME_SECOND_FORMAT
'%H:%M'
SECRET_KEY
'********************'
SEND_BROKEN_LINK_EMAILS
False
SERVER_EMAIL
'root@localhost'
SESSION_COOKIE_AGE
1209600
SESSION_COOKIE_DOMAIN
None
SESSION_COOKIE_NAME
'sessionid'
SESSION_COOKIE_PATH
'/'
SESSION_COOKIE_SECURE
False
SESSION_ENGINE
'django.contrib.sessions.backends.db'
SESSION_EXPIRE_AT_BROWSER_CLOSE
False
SESSION_FILE_PATH
None
SESSION_SAVE_EVERY_REQUEST
False
SETTINGS_MODULE
'compsoc.settings'
SITE_ID
1
TEMPLATE_CONTEXT_PROCESSORS
('django.core.context_processors.auth', 'django.core.context_processors.debug', 'django.core.context_processors.i18n', 'django.core.context_processors.media')
TEMPLATE_DEBUG
True
TEMPLATE_DIRS
('/home/webmaster/reinhardt/compsoc/templates',)
TEMPLATE_LOADERS
('django.template.loaders.filesystem.load_template_source', 'django.template.loaders.app_directories.load_template_source')
TEMPLATE_STRING_IF_INVALID
''
TEST_DATABASE_CHARSET
None
TEST_DATABASE_COLLATION
None
TEST_DATABASE_NAME
None
TEST_RUNNER
'django.test.simple.run_tests'
TIME_FORMAT
'P'
TIME_ZONE
'Europe/London'
TRANSACTIONS_MANAGED
False
UNION_API_KEY
'71409874-3652-41f5-91bf-f9a4c0909a1e'
URL_VALIDATOR_USER_AGENT
'Django/1.0.2 final (http://www.djangoproject.com)'
USE_ETAGS
False
USE_I18N
True
WEEK_FORMAT_STRING
'%a, %d %b %Y'
YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT
'F Y'

You're seeing this error because you have DEBUG = True in your Django settings file. Change that to False, and Django will display a standard 500 page.