How to remove the valid character from the name

[sajuptpm]

On top of Country, region and state name, I can see some invalid character like -.
How to remove that invalid character "-"

Example

Arunāchal Pradesh
Bihār
Chandīgarh
Karnātaka
Mahārāshtra

[sajuptpm]

I am getting following error because of that invalid characters.

ERROR

UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\u0101' in position 4: ordinal not in range(128)

Example (Name of regions)

[u'Andaman and Nicobar Islands', u'Andhra Pradesh', u'Arun\u0101chal Pradesh', u'Assam', u'Bengal', u'Bih\u0101r', u'Chand\u012bgarh', u'Chhattisgarh', u'D\u0101dra and Nagar Haveli', u'Daman and Diu', u'Goa', u'Gujar\u0101t', u'Haryana', u'Himachal Pradesh', u'Jharkhand', u'Karn\u0101taka', u'Kashmir', u'Kerala', u'Laccadives', u'Madhya Pradesh', u'Mah\u0101r\u0101shtra', u'Manipur', u'Megh\u0101laya', u'Mizoram', u'N\u0101g\u0101land', u'NCT', u'Orissa', u'Pondicherry', u'Punjab', u'Rajasthan', u'Sikkim', u'Tamil N\u0101du', u'Tripura', u'Uttar Pradesh', u'Uttarakhand']

[sajuptpm]

I don't need these accented chars in the name. How to remove that ?
How to remove them while populating the django_cities_light tables?

[jpic]

Hi, could you paste the full traceback ? Also, could you check if you have a site.py file in your python environment ?

[jpic]

It works for me here:

>>> print u'\u0101'
ā

Maybe there's a conflicting site.py file in your environment, I've seen that happen a couple of times.

[sajuptpm]

print u'\u0101'
ā

Why one "-" symbol on top of "a". I don't want that. I don't want to show that to user.
How to remove that. Its irritating.

[jpic]

Maybe you could fork django-cities-light and remove all unicode support instead of fixing your environment ?

[mauricioabreu]

Please, provide full traceback. At the moment, I suppose this error is being thrown by database or something like this.

"Why one "-" symbol on top of "a"" Ok, you don't want that, but that is the right way to write that.

If you want the non-accented names, try to use name_ascii property.

c = City.objects.filter(name='Abaeté')[0]
c.name_ascii

[jpic]

No feedback

[mauricioabreu]

I think my solution would work though.

[jpic]

Another solution would be to convert to ascii in city_items_pre_import.

[jpic]

Added faq http://django-cities-light.readthedocs.org/en/latest/#some-data-fail-to-import-how-to-skip-them

[mauricioabreu]

Good job!

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[jpic]

Thanks, and thanks for sharing a bit of your time to provide user support ;)

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[mauricioabreu]

No problem! We are here to help.

2014-04-06 14:24 GMT-03:00 James Pic notifications@github.com:

Thanks, and thanks for sharing a bit of your time to provide user support
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