UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xe3' in position 2: ordinal not in range(128)`

[georgebrindeiro]

Hi! Thanks for creating this great tool!

I am currently able to load my Slack Workspace Export, however some channels lead to a 500 Internal Server Error. Investigating the messages output in the terminal, I frequently see messages like:

UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xe3' in position 2: ordinal not in range(128)

What could that be?

Cheers,
George

[uavpal]

same here: UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xfc' in position 7: ordinal not in range(128)

mine seems related to an URL: result = "<a href="{url}">{title}".format(url=url, title=title)

probably similar to ac4eafb
and it's just a missing encoding="utf8" somewhere.

Rgds
SoftIce

[uavpal]

I can get around it by adding

import sys
reload(sys)
sys.setdefaultencoding('utf8')

starting from line 7 in formatter.py.
Probably only required for Python 2.7.

[nylen]

same error here:

  File "~/.local/venvs/slack-export-viewer/lib/python2.7/site-packages/slackviewer/formatter.py", line 101, in _sub_annotated_mention
    return mention_format.format(annotation)
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xe1' in position 1: ordinal not in range(128)