[ckan-dev] Insert automated data into Datastore

[Ian Ward]

On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 6:31 AM, Lasse Vestergaard <ibbernik at gmail.com> wrote:
>> The first problem is that it seems like the JSON parsing won't accept æøå
>> (danish letters). I havest from a CSV file and I know it's utf-8 encoded.
>> When I look in the CKAN log I only get:
>>
>> Bad request data: Error decoding JSON data. Error:
>> UnicodeDecodeError('utf8', 'h\xf8j', 1, 2, 'invalid start byte')
>>
>> h\xf8j should be "høj" and it's the \xf8 (ø) that is the problem.
>
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> The above has not been solved yet. Any suggestions?

Try using UTF-8 to encode your "ø".  The result should be '\xc3\xb8'.

'\xf8' is "ø" in iso8859-1.

Ian