cookiecutter throws unicode exceptions on image files

[pydanny]

When I was working on cookiecutter-dj-project I found that cookiecutter blew up on image files. Perhaps these should just be copied over without being run through the full generation process?

[audreyfeldroy]

I'm actually running into the same error right now, while trying to create cookiecutter-complexity which has font files. It's a bug that should be fixed for the next release.

[sloria]

Just heads up: The unicode error also happens when there's a hidden file called .DS_STORE in a folder on Macs. This file is a hidden file that stores custom info about folders (icon positioning, etc.).

Spent far too much time trying to locate the file that was causing a unicode error, only to find that it was that dang hidden .DS_STORE file that was put there by Mac OSX.

It would be helpful to enable cookiecutter to ignore such files when building a project (sort of like the .gitignore file).

[audreyfeldroy]

@sloria Thanks for the info about this bug. Sorry about that! This is a high-priority one to fix.